tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49549224788405635622024-03-16T08:15:13.767-04:00Chinese American EyesFamous, forgotten, well-known, and obscure visual artists of Chinese descent in the United StatesAlex Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.comBlogger582125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-86895034214282053522024-03-13T08:00:00.011-04:002024-03-13T08:00:00.130-04:00Graphics: Dining at 14 Mott Street in New York Chinatown, Part 2: 1899–1904<div><br /></div><div><div>(Part 1 is <a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2024/03/graphics-dining-at-14-mott-street-in.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Mon Far Low was the name of restaurants in New York City, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=O9RiAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA5&dq=%22mon+far+low%22&article_id=6169,7936928&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9hq7Aw4aEAxUyMlkFHQn1BYAQ6AF6BAgGEAI#v=onepage&q=%22mon%20far%20low%22&f=false" target="_blank">Providence, Rhode Island</a>, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uPV-gP5HuYoC&q=%22mon+far+low%22&dq=%22mon+far+low%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj2jtjPxYaEAxXXGFkFHYGqCMoQ6AF6BAgGEAI" target="_blank">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a> and <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oxZBAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1483&dq=%22mon+far+low%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj2jtjPxYaEAxXXGFkFHYGqCMoQ6AF6BAgMEAI#v=onepage&q=%22mon%20far%20low%22&f=false" target="_blank">Boise, Idaho</a>. The New York City Mon Far Low was located at 14 Mott Street and apparently opened in early 1899. </div><div><br /></div><div>The <a href="https://chinese-year.com/1899" target="_blank">Year of the Pig</a> began February 10, 1899. Mon Far Low was mentioned in the <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1899-02-21/ed-1/seq-8/" target="_blank">New York <i>Sun</i></a>, February 21, 1899. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese Mystery Dinner</div><div>Peter Seaman Enjoyed It and His Speech Was One of the Features.</div><div><br /></div><div>The members of the On Leung [sic] Tong Chinese Merchants’ Club ate their annual dinner last night at Mon Far Low’s Chinese restaurant, 14 Mott street.</div><div><br /></div><div>Among the invited guests were a score of city officials and men employed about the Criminal Court building.</div><div><br /></div><div>There were about forty Chinamen at the dinner. They were attired in their native dress and made speeches in Chinese “Boston,” the Criminal Court’s Chinese interpreter, introduced Peter Seaman, Judge Newhurger’s man to make a speech in English. Mr. Seaman got up and said:</div><div><br /></div><div>“I like these here Chinese dinners, but I think the Arrangements Committee should have supplied us Americans with stomach interpreters or chemists for the purpose of finding out just what we are called upon to eat. My friend Sam Wolf, Clerk of the General Sessions Court, wanted to be polite and started to tackle the bill of fare upside down, because he believed Chinamen read their newspapers that way.</div><div><br /></div><div>“I want to say right here that I enjoyed the Chinese mystery and also these hot cross buns with the firecracker sauce.”</div><div><br /></div><div>All hands finally went out into the street to witness a pyrotechnic exhibition.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV1Ph9K4UsHWZHlPWeTCnsGBT_AkH7vKd0_bjwlWa6FRZeSVUtLv1eNgKVtke9tJW7DD4i8AVfpjTY3Ft5okNUi8qDSrTDzbCvt4YDnXan-BxsYcWTkyqYLdf1XZDF5ELzIhKGW9tnOKe-4dpc_hwmj41edUIG5d5tvqTMT4jNyUw1XfWGLEUnF6aQYjw/s1864/1899_02_21%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Sun%20p8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1864" data-original-width="1298" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV1Ph9K4UsHWZHlPWeTCnsGBT_AkH7vKd0_bjwlWa6FRZeSVUtLv1eNgKVtke9tJW7DD4i8AVfpjTY3Ft5okNUi8qDSrTDzbCvt4YDnXan-BxsYcWTkyqYLdf1XZDF5ELzIhKGW9tnOKe-4dpc_hwmj41edUIG5d5tvqTMT4jNyUw1XfWGLEUnF6aQYjw/w224-h320/1899_02_21%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Sun%20p8.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The New York <i>Sun</i>, August 31, 1899, reported the following death. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Loo Hee Was Murdered.</div><div>Found Dead in His Laundry, a Wound Through the Heart.</div><div><br /></div><div>Seems to Have Been Stabbed to Death with a Stiletto or Glass Dagger—He Is Said to Have Been the Foe of the Chinese Gamblers—Chin Gin’s Suicide Recalled</div><div><br /></div><div>Loo Hee, an inoffensive Chinese laundryman, was found dead in his shop at 203 West Fifty-third street yesterday morning. He had been stabbed through the heart. His body was found in a sitting posture on a chair behind the counter, his back resting against the money drawer. The head had fallen back and the man’s right arm was thrown across his face almost as though he had tried to hide something from his view. The gas in the laundry was burning brightly, as it had been left on the previous night. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Coroner’s office was requested to take care of a Chinaman’s suicide and the body was sent to the Morgue. S. Weston, Coroner Hart’s physician saw it there soon afterwards and made an autopsy. Immediately afterward he telegraphed this message to Police Headquarters: “Cause of death in case of Loo Hee, stab wound in heart, internal hemorrhage.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Central office was soon at work on the case after this message had been received. They learned that Loo Hee was a brother of Loo Lin, one of the owners of a restaurant at 14 Mott street. They also learned that Hee merely managed and did not own the laundry where his body was found. They found the owner, Wah Kee, in a laundry at 808 Seventh avenue and heard from him that the dead man had a few enemies. The same persons, Wah Kee said, were enemies of Chin Gin, the Chinaman who was found dead on Tuesday morning in his restaurant at 7 Doyers street. ...</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibhmwcCMY4EvcaKND2y69HswZLEb_g8lkmx6AZZidpormC12DsZ-tzLSkuAkBjCiPGLxpyJB952nTmkJLQMCm0PxZxlBLNJwA0zhY2zts33uSoXBw21t8f4sIeXUsIu1o3Rn-1MW0ga-w3J8a98kUo1IasIQyjFnTV_FZ4wIH3Epq3Jy4Da6c0FCSNoH4/s3096/1899_08_31%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Sun%20p2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3096" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibhmwcCMY4EvcaKND2y69HswZLEb_g8lkmx6AZZidpormC12DsZ-tzLSkuAkBjCiPGLxpyJB952nTmkJLQMCm0PxZxlBLNJwA0zhY2zts33uSoXBw21t8f4sIeXUsIu1o3Rn-1MW0ga-w3J8a98kUo1IasIQyjFnTV_FZ4wIH3Epq3Jy4Da6c0FCSNoH4/w156-h640/1899_08_31%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Sun%20p2.jpg" width="156" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The <i>Buffalo Courier</i> (New York), September 1, 1899, said</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Dead in Chair</div><div>Chinese Laundryman Was Stabbed to the Heart.</div><div><br /></div><div>Brothers Say Murder</div><div><br /></div><div>Point Mysteriously to the South, but Make No Disclosures—Possibility of Suicide.</div><div><br /></div><div>New York, Aug. 31—Loo Hee Bean, generally known as Loo Choo, 38 years old, a Chinese laundryman, was found seated behind the counter of his shop, at No. 203 West 53d Street, early yesterday morning, in a sitting posture, but dead. Over the man’s heart was a wound which, however, had penetrated deeply, passing between his ribs and piercing his heart. The instrument which caused it cannot be found. ...</div><div><br /></div><div>Brothers Pointed Southward.</div><div><br /></div><div>Loo Choo’s brothers, Loo Lin and Loo Tom, who are well-to-do and keep a restaurant at No. 14 Mott Street, were summoned, and they threw themselves across the body and wept. To Detectives Lockwood, Sheehan, Dale and Kerr, of the West 47th Street Station, the Chinamen excitedly declared that Loo Choo had been murdered. ...</div><div><br /></div><div>... Loo Lin insisted that his brother had not kilted himself. He said that he was in good health, had no troubles, and never smoked opium. He said that he was making money, and showed a receipt for a money order for $200, which Loo had sent to his wife and two children in China, several days ago. </div><div><br /></div><div>Loo Choo was acquainted with Chin Gin, a Chinese restaurant keeper, of No. 19 Doyers Street, who killed himself by swallowing ammonia last Tuesday. Dr. Weston says that was the first instance of a Chinaman's committing suicide that ever came to his notice, and he thinks that his death may have influenced Loo Choo to kill himself.</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHM8EPPpN4LEyZhbW6DDHAS2nF7MSi9wZadjkWW023aS8Uute5w6Ki33OzZmoRhtU3xIpal3DfdYYdhY3HjibEiqY7pbZUl193C5Fcd6hB2u-JOYkOS2xB7xRLjCch77k1mTjielEhnEl123Ag940bQgD4BbSeBIMBCtnbEY0-dwX2D5nwa0DjQ45xVjY/s7036/1899_09_01%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Buffalo%20Courier%20(NY)%20p3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7036" data-original-width="1071" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHM8EPPpN4LEyZhbW6DDHAS2nF7MSi9wZadjkWW023aS8Uute5w6Ki33OzZmoRhtU3xIpal3DfdYYdhY3HjibEiqY7pbZUl193C5Fcd6hB2u-JOYkOS2xB7xRLjCch77k1mTjielEhnEl123Ag940bQgD4BbSeBIMBCtnbEY0-dwX2D5nwa0DjQ45xVjY/w98-h640/1899_09_01%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Buffalo%20Courier%20(NY)%20p3.jpg" width="98" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=RK9CAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA378&dq=Chinatown+Views,+Mott+Street&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHj8CUkvP-AhXKEVkFHb8zCOs4tAEQ6AF6BAgLEAI#v=onepage&q=Chinatown%20Views%2C%20Mott%20Street&f=false" target="_blank">Leslie’s Weekly</a></i>, November 11, 1899, published a photograph of Mott Street.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbDYfXdx2uRC4BQ2AVBYign1RqGMyyFyb5m4lNj14KS1qg8TahHb2tPl-y5XZnGlyFKG1j-F8_0v9R_hREBeHPKAIcBawwyr-slF7Z3yIGjzKGygRbKssAhH350QVsxzOcUMd5KyMyaIJNZ3lJzXXpglf2O7kY-UJYrv-NaPmHo04tEWBPusTga_Y3VE/s2609/1899_11_11%2014-24%20Mott%20Street%20NYC%20Leslie%E2%80%99s%20Weekly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1815" data-original-width="2609" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbDYfXdx2uRC4BQ2AVBYign1RqGMyyFyb5m4lNj14KS1qg8TahHb2tPl-y5XZnGlyFKG1j-F8_0v9R_hREBeHPKAIcBawwyr-slF7Z3yIGjzKGygRbKssAhH350QVsxzOcUMd5KyMyaIJNZ3lJzXXpglf2O7kY-UJYrv-NaPmHo04tEWBPusTga_Y3VE/w400-h279/1899_11_11%2014-24%20Mott%20Street%20NYC%20Leslie%E2%80%99s%20Weekly.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Right to left: 14 to 24 Mott Street</div><div><br /></div><div>The <a href="https://chinese-year.com/1900" target="_blank">Year of the Rat</a> began January 31, 1900. </div><div><br /></div><div>The banquet of the On Leong Tong was reported in the New York <i>World</i>, February 11, 1900 and <i>The New York Times</i>, February 13, 1900. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinatown’s Big Feast.</div><div>Members of the On Leong Tong Association Ask Their Friends to a Grand Banquet.</div><div><br /></div><div>Roosevelt, Platt, Depew Invited.</div><div><br /></div><div>Prominent City Officials and Politicians Are Expected to Be Guests in Mott Street.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chefs employed in restaurants in Chinatown have been preparing for the past two weeks dishes that will be served to-morrow evening at the clubhouse of the On Leong Tong Chinese Merchants’ Association.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chop suey, quin la mong and yi lu ong are not considered. A list of twenty-seven courses includes such dishes as bird’s-nest soup, shark’s fins fricassee and imported Chinese canary-bird tongues a la maitre d’hotel.</div><div><br /></div><div>The banquet will be held at the club’s headquarters, No,14 Mott street. Before the Chinese merchants and their guests are seated they will listen to a cannonade of firecrackers. It is expected that 2,000,000 firecrackers will be set off. A Chinese band will play during the banquet.</div><div><br /></div><div>Tom Lee, President of the association, will preside. Li Chung, who is better known as “Boston,” is master of ceremonies.</div><div><br /></div><div>Primed invitations to the banquet have been sent out. Among the invited guests are Senators Platt and Depew, Gov. Roosevelt, Mayor Van Wyck, John F. Carroll, Chief Devery, Inspectors Thompson, Cross and Brooks, Capt. George Titus, Chief Clerk Carroll, of the Court of General Sessions; Recorder Goff, Judges McMahon, Cowing, Newburger and Foster, ex-Judge Patrick Divver, Sam Wolf, William Hannah, Thomas P. Dinnean, Stephen J. O’Hare, Col. Gardiner and the members of his staff.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9hhO6P5dLz3pIRtz_plF9pGEdUUZwyQ0xL7RRWjzUfhd4_iO33EtNhlotMQJvZvYpfhGYAii2S4OTF3g01Q2BnytaI2_vHCVCd10RzDLZfsL78u8YnFfObXCHIjhHeZWlskc5qr05hRitp5H2W33ox1zYQZxE0hVp7nzEacXdG-uxXs4C6pfR2Z0bcwk/s2397/1900_02_11%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20World%20p5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2397" data-original-width="886" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9hhO6P5dLz3pIRtz_plF9pGEdUUZwyQ0xL7RRWjzUfhd4_iO33EtNhlotMQJvZvYpfhGYAii2S4OTF3g01Q2BnytaI2_vHCVCd10RzDLZfsL78u8YnFfObXCHIjhHeZWlskc5qr05hRitp5H2W33ox1zYQZxE0hVp7nzEacXdG-uxXs4C6pfR2Z0bcwk/w149-h400/1900_02_11%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20World%20p5.jpg" width="149" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">New York <i>World</i></div><blockquote><div>Chinese New Year Feast.</div><div>Celebration Opened with a Bombardment and Resounding Music—An Oriental Menu.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Celestial New Year’s Eve was celebrated last evening by the On Leong Tong—the Chinese Merchants’ Association of New York—at the Chinese restaurant and Joss House, at 14 Mott Street. The affair was announced by several cables of firecrackers hung out from the fifth story to the ground, and went off with almost as much fire and smoke as a battle. The bombardment was kept up for an hour and a half, and cost $1,500, it was said. One of the Chinese artillerists remarked, “When Chinee melchant do a thing he do it up blawn.” ...</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8SF2kj4HDOvVtMWFZfdju_07QZlzgKMWpDfXU659trjtCXD1GwlhUKvU18tLnF8mYgNiSDBn7iK3bHGN9qZgTnCAx0RVx_av1WMHolvHx6D0LF3VK-5nFbe9FEswCa-qvqM01ziFlv7yVs5Xy2hI9hOR6eBnDoVQtnOmOKSiFI4LLNXbRWoOxXogJ2fs/s3029/1900_02_13%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Times%20p8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3029" data-original-width="1052" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8SF2kj4HDOvVtMWFZfdju_07QZlzgKMWpDfXU659trjtCXD1GwlhUKvU18tLnF8mYgNiSDBn7iK3bHGN9qZgTnCAx0RVx_av1WMHolvHx6D0LF3VK-5nFbe9FEswCa-qvqM01ziFlv7yVs5Xy2hI9hOR6eBnDoVQtnOmOKSiFI4LLNXbRWoOxXogJ2fs/w140-h400/1900_02_13%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Times%20p8.jpg" width="140" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The New York Times</i></div><div><br /></div><div>1900 United States Census was enumerated in June. Below are the tenants at 14 Mott Street.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGAGJqF556PE-KZSKK0L1di2jRu5y3JdO5BQfpDp_N-BBf_uwNYLdxW5DGwR2Kim4QkuwsTDfzmfWs-b5IzlG7559yVdlUlBjUwbfh9eJSLLDH_Q30x2Rz_X5rZNDPdF_Q9b5tJ3XXmBmMnZLUYoM2aF7eYvvzO8MG3NgopRW9loCQNEmR8gHYrU5jmo/s3589/1900_06%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Census%20L44-50.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3575" data-original-width="3589" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGAGJqF556PE-KZSKK0L1di2jRu5y3JdO5BQfpDp_N-BBf_uwNYLdxW5DGwR2Kim4QkuwsTDfzmfWs-b5IzlG7559yVdlUlBjUwbfh9eJSLLDH_Q30x2Rz_X5rZNDPdF_Q9b5tJ3XXmBmMnZLUYoM2aF7eYvvzO8MG3NgopRW9loCQNEmR8gHYrU5jmo/w400-h400/1900_06%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Census%20L44-50.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Merchants, lines 44 to 50</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRwuLPMyuuvKrBVbb-0ZXv3EIF4emc_0AJXPEhyp1BqYTPmkrKdDDeT8_zmWwExnPFY0U5ZWAYfXIAqFIkrAqrajQvrE4DanCldbLmIqhJZe-tU7kkP9rCMOpCgCToZ41a-kUDN_rabJzgzHc9TNl7yv6OX8dIJ68u0pDw3iSKLIuCRU612vCU6Pd2eXE/s3564/1900_06%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Census%20L51-80.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3552" data-original-width="3564" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRwuLPMyuuvKrBVbb-0ZXv3EIF4emc_0AJXPEhyp1BqYTPmkrKdDDeT8_zmWwExnPFY0U5ZWAYfXIAqFIkrAqrajQvrE4DanCldbLmIqhJZe-tU7kkP9rCMOpCgCToZ41a-kUDN_rabJzgzHc9TNl7yv6OX8dIJ68u0pDw3iSKLIuCRU612vCU6Pd2eXE/w400-h400/1900_06%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Census%20L51-80.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Cooks and waiters, lines 51 to 59;</div><div style="text-align: center;">laundrymen and merchants, lines 60 to 80</div><div><br /></div><div>A photograph of 14 Mott Street appeared in <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XPtI_o_5UXoC&pg=PA659&dq=Temple+%22mott+st%22+chinatown&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjG6LDunPv-AhU-F1kFHc06B_k4lgEQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q=Temple%20%22mott%20st%22%20chinatown&f=false" target="_blank">Harper’s Weekly</a></i>, July 14, 1900. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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</div><div style="text-align: center;">photographer unknown</div><div><br /></div><div>In the middle of the block is 14 Mott Street, a four-story building with a rooftop flagpole, circa 1900.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5CRgkS-7X9MgrmCPUqe86Dk7m7Wrqv1ur-zEXF6i8fhgHZx0JETOxg2aE08GctC9KmdD-RG6tnikQunNISMS4eehDiyIIgTDl-M58qsIjzxGK_RjbevLsp45maR1eZdgKOKTqV6p0tsW23c86oXQFKw-qpvR3NZXb9v7GDo9yL81H5qFNur4EP-ylUY4/s1617/Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Valentine%20&%20Sons%2001a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="1617" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5CRgkS-7X9MgrmCPUqe86Dk7m7Wrqv1ur-zEXF6i8fhgHZx0JETOxg2aE08GctC9KmdD-RG6tnikQunNISMS4eehDiyIIgTDl-M58qsIjzxGK_RjbevLsp45maR1eZdgKOKTqV6p0tsW23c86oXQFKw-qpvR3NZXb9v7GDo9yL81H5qFNur4EP-ylUY4/w400-h258/Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Valentine%20&%20Sons%2001a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Ropes of firecrackers were strung from stoops to the top stories of tenements where Celestials dwell. Chinese lanterns were lighted shortly after dark, and Chong Doc, the “Mayor,” applied the punk to a big bunch of crackers in front of 14 Mott Street.</div><div><br /></div><div>Inside was a banquet of Chinese merchants and prominent guests, while the noise was at its height. There were speeches from the oldest and youngest Chinamen on the New Year, and all were happy, Chinese laundrymen from Hoboken, the Bronx, Weehawken, the boroughs, and other places filled the streets.</div><div><br /></div><div>The crowd was swelled by sightseers. At this time the Mongols hastened to pay each other their debts. If they don’t there is a sort of public showing up of delinquents, and a “boycott” is declared. The crowd of New Year’s celebrators seemed to be devoid of worry on the score of debts. They paraded Mott, Pell, Doyers and adjoining streets attired in silken khaki garb, wreathed in bland smiles.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cIxKZeKd3IcYCBtpKidsiBsU5nM2E8TAR4IIbmZyyaxjvTNFrcuVhF4av2mjc7sQ1lY-T1genePE3ExkVS1E7M5u33zCZd0B-ElGbwi56RdfYOs-x6grsx_wrAhVDJSUSIfNME8kuIxNNsGkPi2lgs29UNHcBCUZ4_NC58dCzbAnl6MWIskX7RnraJA/s1212/1901_02_23%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Times%20p7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1212" data-original-width="993" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cIxKZeKd3IcYCBtpKidsiBsU5nM2E8TAR4IIbmZyyaxjvTNFrcuVhF4av2mjc7sQ1lY-T1genePE3ExkVS1E7M5u33zCZd0B-ElGbwi56RdfYOs-x6grsx_wrAhVDJSUSIfNME8kuIxNNsGkPi2lgs29UNHcBCUZ4_NC58dCzbAnl6MWIskX7RnraJA/w164-h200/1901_02_23%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Times%20p7.jpg" width="164" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Below is a Mon Far Low menu with two dates written on it: April 26, 1901 and June 1901. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1621" data-original-width="2477" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijCr5ZmajaL8bX0kMr5syNCGMc9b9PEaMcNUELtumAZQMkpWOcP88UQs-jpql2C84yOCpIyrTS3sz-3x2BHIyYHz1U_MOWAmWlCGylHITkGi2C4PbIQphzk9NkJ9cJX_550tq9oR3SyAvrZ7qYwtxMRHcxpz3zWXKjC6-jBBdZTZ5EpDpLfnf3X-gFSB0/w400-h261/1901%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20Menu%20NYC%2002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">8.375 x 5.4375 inches unfolded;</div><div style="text-align: center;">designer and calligrapher unknown</div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXTBH5-4yMVorap2DB0rw6HTv0qdNIIcEv3vIt6bxb8ZycSV3FhvN_eRlL6XoI3UAg7Vji1rJ9p-h075QrmuHRfMKDVh06aSW-hERCtHRXFRwES3t0vzWjYYSzl4LsGs6Irvg7-HLkwaTk7BQ0sw5E1lvEFkqjEWnIZAEnYaVasENIlb1lAom143Wm0eA/s1666/14%E2%80%9322%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Postcard%2012454%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1666" data-original-width="1055" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXTBH5-4yMVorap2DB0rw6HTv0qdNIIcEv3vIt6bxb8ZycSV3FhvN_eRlL6XoI3UAg7Vji1rJ9p-h075QrmuHRfMKDVh06aSW-hERCtHRXFRwES3t0vzWjYYSzl4LsGs6Irvg7-HLkwaTk7BQ0sw5E1lvEFkqjEWnIZAEnYaVasENIlb1lAom143Wm0eA/w254-h400/14%E2%80%9322%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Postcard%2012454%2001.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">14 Mott Street is on the right</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgegzgPtKmEpD84Ara9OQpb2YHS-DJnLxe5J1e1P5kaUZqeZV3gk2YfGXI4z3-5-_Z1SXem82IIf6nuoxmD7gBgM7t2vgHfHGzMnc1svmvHMHq-jqsiDfGJA_DHeILubYm717lpaQq7-7JNlf6P69qvyAfDH9pVGglgAl9ERSCNvBxfxtoBd2rGC1YjJWI/s1672/14%E2%80%9322%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Postcard%2012454%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1054" data-original-width="1672" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgegzgPtKmEpD84Ara9OQpb2YHS-DJnLxe5J1e1P5kaUZqeZV3gk2YfGXI4z3-5-_Z1SXem82IIf6nuoxmD7gBgM7t2vgHfHGzMnc1svmvHMHq-jqsiDfGJA_DHeILubYm717lpaQq7-7JNlf6P69qvyAfDH9pVGglgAl9ERSCNvBxfxtoBd2rGC1YjJWI/w400-h253/14%E2%80%9322%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Postcard%2012454%2002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Date unknown</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>A Mon Far Low postcard is on <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/17681371@N04/2283799333/" target="_blank">flickr</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>The <a href="https://chinese-year.com/1902" target="_blank">Year of the Tiger</a> began February 8, 1902. The celebration was covered by several newspapers.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>New York <i>Evening Post</i>, February 12, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese Merchants as Hosts.</div><div>Dinner of Twenty-seven Courses for the City Officials—To Begin with Fireworks and Pudding.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Chinese Merchants’ Association has everything ready for an elaborated dinner to bee given to the city officials February 17, to close the Chinese New Year festivities. The dinner will be given at six o’clock, and will consist of twenty-seven courses, every dish of which will be an importation from China. The dinner will be given at No. 14 Mott street. </div><div><br /></div><div>Some city officials who are expected to attend are: Mayor Low, Comptroller Grout, Police Commissioner Partridge, District Attorney Jerome, nearly all the General Sessions judges, a number of the Supreme Court justices, and about 150 others. The Secretary of the Chinese legation at Washington and the Chinese Consul-General will also attend.</div><div><br /></div><div>There will be fireworks before the dinner, when 100,000 firecrackers will be exploded. After the dinner, which will last until about ten o’clock, the officials will be taken to the Chinese Theatre, where an exclusive entertainment for their benefit will be furnished. A trip through Chinatown will end the festivities. </div><div><br /></div><div>The souvenirs of the dinner will be the dishes from which the diners will eat. There will be fancy plates decorated by Chinese artists, decorated chopsticks, porcelain teapots, and other dishes will be pretty and worth taking away.</div><div><br /></div><div>The dinner will begin with pudding. The first one will be yellow fish-brain pudding, a rare delicacy imported from China, a small portion of which in Chinatown usually costs $1.50. Chickens fed exclusively on pineapple, and others fed on mushrooms, and ducks fed on fruit, will be served; with sharks’ fins, birds’-nest pudding, and chop suey. There will be thirteen kinds of preserved fruits from China, and half a dozen different kinds of cheese, made in China, and served in Oriental pots. </div><div><br /></div><div>Several members of the association will make personal visits to the city officials Friday to extend them verbal invitations, besides the written ones already sent out. The Chinese have spared no expense in getting up the dinner. </div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJtJp473t1EbhzbnytH9TNSbgflxR_iP4oo-iWe3oq7OvraPnr9HavlvZsiyC74MdcX2xGqaj2nUUQ98q3nv4TPtBYk8DWDENhNNq7HvP9agesTT0CF6IY6soMlNdnMyCKhauBI9HdZHjJzm1s1HnhFhfilNuUc-092Ir-KDg3zJlKnwXIH6efcGDjDU0/s3669/1902_02_12%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Evening%20Post%20p2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3669" data-original-width="1222" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJtJp473t1EbhzbnytH9TNSbgflxR_iP4oo-iWe3oq7OvraPnr9HavlvZsiyC74MdcX2xGqaj2nUUQ98q3nv4TPtBYk8DWDENhNNq7HvP9agesTT0CF6IY6soMlNdnMyCKhauBI9HdZHjJzm1s1HnhFhfilNuUc-092Ir-KDg3zJlKnwXIH6efcGDjDU0/w134-h400/1902_02_12%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Evening%20Post%20p2.jpg" width="134" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i>New York Evening Telegram</i>, February 12, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Strange Chinese Dishes Ready for City Officials</div><div>The On Leong Hong [sic] Will Serve Eggs a Thousand Years Old and and Other Delicacies at Municipal Dinner.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Chinese Merchants’ Association (the On Leong Hong) will give a dinner to city officials at No. 14 Mott street on Monday evening. February 17, which will be unique in many respects. All the food has been imported specially from China. The diners, of whom there will be 150, will retain the dishes they eat from and the chopsticks as souvenirs.</div><div><br /></div><div>Before the dinner, which will begin at six o’clock, $500 worth of firecrackers will be set off. A Chinese orchestra will play and afterwards there will be a visit to the Chinese theatre and a trip through Chinatown.</div><div><br /></div><div>All the delicacies known to the Chinese will be on the bill of fare, which will contain twenty-seven different courses. There will be bok du tuai chu, a dish which costs at the rate of $2.50 an ounce; yellow fish brains, ducks that have lived on fruit alone, fruit chicken, chestnut chicken and mushrooms in every style. There will be crab omelet and chop sooy, eleven different kinds of nuts and eight brands of teas, and eggs, preserved by some process known to the Chinese, that are said to be more than a thousand years old.</div><div><br /></div><div>Representatives of the Chinese Minister at Washington and the Chinese Consul of this city will be present.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DYWA7Zs95jWsSxLzSXOIiRFKQgRF2a0YLOQyuaYaSj67ZZD_hWvW3gIB4Hta8PjnH0nwEFKpqHJaz6NkfYzjekoAIscBPn-cbHkvRHPZP4_iAcGe3nDn1Wht4G8mz_MEoyyt9NWACjysTZLbONpygF1xH8_tTdB30X5ks-RK8pKno3s9bNTr5Sfip_M/s1508/1902_02_12%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Evening%20Telegram%20p5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1508" data-original-width="971" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DYWA7Zs95jWsSxLzSXOIiRFKQgRF2a0YLOQyuaYaSj67ZZD_hWvW3gIB4Hta8PjnH0nwEFKpqHJaz6NkfYzjekoAIscBPn-cbHkvRHPZP4_iAcGe3nDn1Wht4G8mz_MEoyyt9NWACjysTZLbONpygF1xH8_tTdB30X5ks-RK8pKno3s9bNTr5Sfip_M/w206-h320/1902_02_12%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Evening%20Telegram%20p5.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>New York Morning Telegraph</i>, February 13, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Mayor to Dine in Chinatown</div><div>With Other City Officials to Be Guest of Mongolian Merchants.</div><div><br /></div><div>Menu Comprises 27 Courses</div><div><br /></div><div>In Honor of the Occasion 100,000 Firecrackers Will Be Exploded. Jerome Will Be There, Too.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Mayor, public officials, judges of the courts and others have accepted an invitation to dine a la Cathay at 14 Mott street, February 17. </div><div><br /></div><div>They will feast on fish brain pudding, sharks’ fins, preserved birds’ nests, duck eggs of great antiquity, and other morceaux regarded by the Chinese as delicacies.</div><div><br /></div><div>Only Twenty-seven Courses.</div><div><br /></div><div>There will be 27 courses, all told, and the guests will carry away the plates, which will serve as souvenirs.</div><div><br /></div><div>On Ieong Hong, an association of Chinese merchants, are to be the hosts.</div><div><br /></div><div>Will Explode 100,000 Firecrackers.</div><div><br /></div><div>They mean to explode 100,000 firecrackers in honor of the occasion, and do other things to make Mayor Low, District Attorney Jerome, et al., believe themselves popular in Chinatown.</div><div><br /></div><div>Incidentally, all the hubbub will mark the close of the New Year festivities.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja67kexNnQFT-VldEGUqu3IeXM_54NgsnPJRvZAaIxdZKlcztmmybOkG5z4dNCwHEQ3HMq5xPVhzRG3lm8Ue7LMQGjeO7q95-BpJVNTfQMfgdBXGMyZdE4c5ikJ4R3UEMSY0Qk0tfsLy0mqPyMgVakzep9keIUaAs6JKt8O_cw-gmQ-5aPaZXJqwsncN0/s2123/1902_02_13%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Morning%20Telegraph%20p6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2123" data-original-width="825" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja67kexNnQFT-VldEGUqu3IeXM_54NgsnPJRvZAaIxdZKlcztmmybOkG5z4dNCwHEQ3HMq5xPVhzRG3lm8Ue7LMQGjeO7q95-BpJVNTfQMfgdBXGMyZdE4c5ikJ4R3UEMSY0Qk0tfsLy0mqPyMgVakzep9keIUaAs6JKt8O_cw-gmQ-5aPaZXJqwsncN0/w156-h400/1902_02_13%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Morning%20Telegraph%20p6.jpg" width="156" /></a></div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>New York Tribune</i>, February 13, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese Cookery for City Fathers.</div><div>The dinner of the Chinese Merchants’ Association, to be given for city officials on February 17 at No. 14 Mott-st., to close the Chinese New Year celebration, will consist of twenty-seven courses, every dish of which will be an importation from China. Among the city officials expected to attend are Mayor Low, Controller Grout, Police Commissioner Partridge, Deputy Controller Stevenson, District Attorney Jerome, nearly all of the General Sessions Judges and a number of the Supreme Court Justices. The Secretary of the Chinese Legation at Washington and the Chinese consul general are also expected to be present.</div><div><br /></div><div>Before the dinner one hundred thousand firecrackers will be exploded. After the dinner, which will last three or four hours, the officials will go to the Chinese theatre, where an exclusive entertainment for them will be furnished. A trip through Chinatown will follow. The souvenirs of the dinner will be the dishes from which the diners will eat. The guests will carry them away.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVo98vdfWNkQ6sL2a3zddOOhRVw2Iw_wVF8cULa3yja5W5l8ASxMjwMv3M-xoUsJv3nhaYXo2gmZb4-A59ia_rtfiTVipUi5xI238mBsZd6X9rqzbMbNGJ33RI85vtzhA4mkznpATP9HTBHONj0qpTNAFkn6nbO_Camz2ck_UPAPHsBDEF-N-dQNz9Cpo/s1308/1902_02_13%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Tribune%20p4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="1308" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVo98vdfWNkQ6sL2a3zddOOhRVw2Iw_wVF8cULa3yja5W5l8ASxMjwMv3M-xoUsJv3nhaYXo2gmZb4-A59ia_rtfiTVipUi5xI238mBsZd6X9rqzbMbNGJ33RI85vtzhA4mkznpATP9HTBHONj0qpTNAFkn6nbO_Camz2ck_UPAPHsBDEF-N-dQNz9Cpo/w200-h177/1902_02_13%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Tribune%20p4.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>New York <i>Evening World</i>, February 14, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Mott Street Wants Low.</div><div>Delegation of Picturesque Chinamen Invites Mayor to Dinner.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mayor Low is receiving calls from all kinds of gayly dressed potentates.</div><div><br /></div><div>This afternoon a committee of Chinese princes from Mott street visited the City Hall to invite the Mayor to a dinner at No. 14 Mott street Wednesday evening.</div><div><br /></div><div>Each member of the delegation wore his shirt outside his wide silk trousers. They had red buttons on their black pot hats.</div><div><br /></div><div>They left with Secretary Reynolds a crimson piece of paper written over with black hen tracks. This was s duplicate invitation.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWdnbu5IHyMGQkgk4b5l87htF7T_F99MDhC0FdivyJR12FY5YZb94nIymqXsOy6tSp-Qyyc99u7sePtZWRjTeilrmV3vPeNQ5gF3Gww6gygvNqLHFFz0NGSfuNSTXEIHLaWlPIaQYemrKUymIJCE5O64EVWjpTwmVuI4EfMxmDNWU18DnoAjo24CSwNA/s1012/1902_02_14%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Evening%20World%20p3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1005" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWdnbu5IHyMGQkgk4b5l87htF7T_F99MDhC0FdivyJR12FY5YZb94nIymqXsOy6tSp-Qyyc99u7sePtZWRjTeilrmV3vPeNQ5gF3Gww6gygvNqLHFFz0NGSfuNSTXEIHLaWlPIaQYemrKUymIJCE5O64EVWjpTwmVuI4EfMxmDNWU18DnoAjo24CSwNA/w199-h200/1902_02_14%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Evening%20World%20p3.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>New York Morning Telegraph</i>, February 15, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinatown’s Banquet.</div><div>Arrangements Nearly Completed for the Queer Dinner Mayor Low Will Attend.</div><div>The arrangements for the dinner which Mayor Low will attend in Chinatown within a few days are almost complete. The banquet will be served at 14 Mott street on china service brought especially from China for the purpose.</div><div><br /></div><div>The music will be furnished by Kee Sing’s Chinese opera orchestra, and the entire affair will be given under the patronage of the Lee Fung Co.</div></blockquote><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcojedK8CNPbWsySIfE-SpukfuoB451qSo-R6NGkE_8BMhMUVfStLfNVXuoW_p39iKCgN9ODiJh31BlpsjY3aNqh96t7jPqJrCCF6JNwPswJXxcbpbEzvBl8O4s2AXBcOcJCVp1PflcJV9QL2cTbFTB7M2KEsbNBGtRIe43XD4ia-k_1FjJFj-uvtSKL8/s1256/1902_02_15%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Morning%20Telegraph%20p2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1105" data-original-width="1256" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcojedK8CNPbWsySIfE-SpukfuoB451qSo-R6NGkE_8BMhMUVfStLfNVXuoW_p39iKCgN9ODiJh31BlpsjY3aNqh96t7jPqJrCCF6JNwPswJXxcbpbEzvBl8O4s2AXBcOcJCVp1PflcJV9QL2cTbFTB7M2KEsbNBGtRIe43XD4ia-k_1FjJFj-uvtSKL8/w200-h176/1902_02_15%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Morning%20Telegraph%20p2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>New York <i>Evening Post</i>, February 18, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese Banquet Fare.</div><div>Bird’s-Nest Sour First, prefaced by Firecrackers.</div><div><br /></div><div>One hundred crates of firecrackers and fifty-seven gross of torpedoes were exploded in front of the On Leong Hong [sic] at No. 14 Mott Street last night, as preliminary to the dinner of the Chinese Merchants’s Association. Besides these there were various “twisters” and “roarers,” colored lights and waving silk flags. The noise lasted one hour, between six and seven o’clock, and then all the Chinamen and their white friends sat down to a dinner of twenty-seven courses, to celebrate the closing of the 2453rd year after Confucius. Police Commissioner partridge was there as a guest, together with other city and county officials.</div><div><br /></div><div>At first there was a little hesitancy on the part of the diners to eat what was set before them. Especially was this noticeable when bird’s-nest soup was announced by the interpreter. The “bird’s nest” part of the soup was a variety of gelatin picked from seaweed by seabirds and stored for future use much as a bee does honey. It is said to cost $4 to $5 a pound, and is therefore considered a delicacy. Boiled squab in peanut oil was served next. There were chicken wings, boned, and stuffed with bamboo sprouts and rice; sharks’ fins, a jelly-like substance highly seasoned; and lotus lily soup, which was not a soup, but a warm drink made of the seed of the Chinese lotus. Mushroom chop suey was partaken of the most heartily. Mushroom chop suey, it is said, has no part in a banquet, but was served because of its popularity with Americans. One American woman called it “glorified hash.”</div><div><br /></div><div>There was bundled duck and boiled chicken and several kinds of soup, besides sweetmeats in innumerable shapes and sizes. </div><div><br /></div><div>While these courses were being served, one of the Chinese hosts, attended by a servant, went to each of the 100 guests and drank with each as much as each would drink of the “Mandarin Drink,” which tasted very much like strong, musty sherry. Before the drinker had reached his fiftieth guest he was reinforced by another. Together they shared the burden of the remaining “healths,” and them zigzagged out of the room very erect and dignified.</div><div><br /></div><div>The departure of Commissioner Partridge and his friends was the signal of a general onslaught on the decorations. Silks, fans, china, fruits, pastry, and what not, disappeared into the clothing of the guests. One stout man put a porcelain vase under his ulster and bade his hosts good night, unabashed. It was explained by some that this wholesale carrying-away of the banquet properties was expected.</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj37VV_2a2It2QFiqt6BgAxoNLrUdH0NUeosVtrDIuROpT83e43BtgYUu4dDvhufBY7DdwS6GJUAjh57jI0PC-vwXLP3bgRfIPX7kjYAh2g835Xhocgm43UUCugCupF73XMDjXTyF75Alf4G80B91vaS2hAhuSuSrI43bj4oodfqGb2DWS5A4b3M2yjgcs/s2952/1902_02_18%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Evening%20Post%20p12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2952" data-original-width="819" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj37VV_2a2It2QFiqt6BgAxoNLrUdH0NUeosVtrDIuROpT83e43BtgYUu4dDvhufBY7DdwS6GJUAjh57jI0PC-vwXLP3bgRfIPX7kjYAh2g835Xhocgm43UUCugCupF73XMDjXTyF75Alf4G80B91vaS2hAhuSuSrI43bj4oodfqGb2DWS5A4b3M2yjgcs/w178-h640/1902_02_18%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Evening%20Post%20p12.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1902-02-18/ed-1/seq-1/" target="_blank">New York <i>Sun</i></a>, February 18, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Partridge in Chinatown.</div><div>Police Commissioner and Others Eat Chop Suey and Birds’ Nests.</div><div>Chinatown celebrated the closing of the 3,453d year after Confucius by two dinners and an abundance of fireworks in Mott and Pell streets last night. The On Leong Hong [sic] (Chinese Merchants’ Association) gave a dinner in the Chinese restaurant at 14 Mott street, which was attended by several hundred persons, among them a number of city officials.</div><div><br /></div><div>Police Commissioner Partridge, Deputy Commissioners Thurston and Ebstein, Judge Warren W. Foster, Justice Mayer, Assistant United States District Attorney Lloyd, Assistant District Attorneys Train, Townsend and O’Connor, Dr. Hamilton Williams, Major Kirby of the Eighth Regiment, John W. Goff, Jr., Fred House, Robert M. Moore, William M. Fuller and Police Captain Wendel were among the guests. Tom Lee, the Mayor of Chinatown, presided over the dinner, and a speech was made by Frank Lee, his son.</div><div><br /></div><div>The dinner consisted of all the well-known Chinese delicacies, chop suey, sharks’ fins, birds’ nests end Chinese sweet-meats. The dining room was decorated with Chinese flags and at the head of the room was a large floral piece with “A happy New Year to all,” on it in immortelles. A Chinese orchestra furnished music.</div><div><br /></div><div>At the close of the dinner Commissioner Partridge and his two deputies made a tour of Chinatown, stopping at Joss houses and prominent stores, and winding up in the Chinese Theatre in Doyer street. The Commissioner said that he had a good time.</div><div><br /></div><div>The other dinner was at 24 Pell street and was given by the Oriental Club. Among the guests were a good many American merchants in the Chinese trade and they had their wives with them. A number of specially invited guests were also present, among them William H. Baldwin, Jr., Foster L. Backus, Col. William C. Beecher and Dr. Baldwin, Secretary of the Methodist Foreign Mission Society.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmdJWP-67FZl9GI4UT5AeMAgL4laoKtxw2ZAcDLUbE4MiZ76187lVI76085vBmVszIafEl_7ZoSs7dZlWauAI9RSckNd1GbJx1D11bsM5HCBWNn_X7EYRbLbGbWNYZMIVZsYNpuDWb9bbGiw_YjxTCJ6d87Su6z8hyphenhyphen0FWr8JafeVag5RyLBixuj2x-IKw/s2290/1902_02_18%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Sun%20p1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2290" data-original-width="971" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmdJWP-67FZl9GI4UT5AeMAgL4laoKtxw2ZAcDLUbE4MiZ76187lVI76085vBmVszIafEl_7ZoSs7dZlWauAI9RSckNd1GbJx1D11bsM5HCBWNn_X7EYRbLbGbWNYZMIVZsYNpuDWb9bbGiw_YjxTCJ6d87Su6z8hyphenhyphen0FWr8JafeVag5RyLBixuj2x-IKw/w170-h400/1902_02_18%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Sun%20p1.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>The New York Times</i>, February 18, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinatown’s New Year.</div><div>The Occasion Celebrated with Two Large Banquets of Chinese Viands.</div><div>Chinatown celebrated its New Year last night with two dinners, one given by the Chinese Merchant Association and the other by the Oriental Club. Both were well attended, and a number of prominent guests were entertained at each board.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Chinese Merchant Association banquet, which was given at 14 Mott Street, numbered among its guests Police Commissioner Partridge, Deputy Commissioners Ebstein and Thurston, Judge Warren W. Foster of General Sessions, Justice Julius Mayer of Special Sessions, United States District Attorney D. A.. Lloyd, and Assistant District Attorneys Train, O’Connor, Townsend, and Thorne. There were also prominent at the various tables a large number of police Captains and Detective Sergeants, and other minor public officials. Mayor Low, who had accepted an invitation to the dinner, did not arrive. The presiding genius of the feast was Tom Lee, the Mayor of Chinatown, who last night celebrated his twenty-fifth year as a Chinese merchant in this city. ...</div></blockquote><div><i>New York Tribune</i>, February 18, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Officials in Chinatown.</div><div>... It seems that some time ago, out of the fulness of their hearts and the desire to solidify their already pleasant relations with the present city administration, the Chinese Merchants Association sat about their round teak table, smoked gravely and deliberated. The result of their vote which followed was that the association should arrange, order and aid in preparing a huge dinner, to which they should invite some of the great men of the city’s government. No sooner decided than red tissue paper invitations were on the way to the Postoffice. Days passed, last night arrived, and so did the time for the grand dinner at No. 14 Mott-st., and so did the guests. The Chinese Consul was there, and, with the high officials of the association to aid him, a welcome was extended the memory of which, some said, would never die. ...</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyiQjDohIGIRSWXZVAKal-JdQLb77mVP-RN1TOd72TkI-OVBFz_pLXBRYbj03N-xnS2iT740UQJ1XbBqZ6AFv3C2uZlFGBZBO-zBPOLoObGMocpg2-d5bE8YE6P3OgI2mQmZY9WRlHekH94dnMEMebOSZCcY6YZLBqc9ns-RMz4NrLlgtjXadkesrYEr8/s3251/1902_02_18%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Tribune%20p6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3251" data-original-width="856" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyiQjDohIGIRSWXZVAKal-JdQLb77mVP-RN1TOd72TkI-OVBFz_pLXBRYbj03N-xnS2iT740UQJ1XbBqZ6AFv3C2uZlFGBZBO-zBPOLoObGMocpg2-d5bE8YE6P3OgI2mQmZY9WRlHekH94dnMEMebOSZCcY6YZLBqc9ns-RMz4NrLlgtjXadkesrYEr8/w170-h640/1902_02_18%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Tribune%20p6.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>In August 1902, Minister Wu Ting-fang dined at Mon Far Low. </div><div><br /></div><div><i>New York Evening Post</i>, August 14, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Various Notes.</div><div>Minister Wu Ting-fang of the Chinese Embassy was the guest at a farewell dinner given yesterday afternoon by the various societies of Chinatown. The feast was in the Mon Far Low restaurant, No. 14 Mott Street, and began at two o’clock. It cost $20 a plate, and there were seventeen courses. At the close of the banquet the Ministerial party paid a call on the Chinese Consul, at one of his offices, in the joss house, No. 20 Mott Street. Mr. Wu and his secretaries then left Chinatown for Washington, where he will remain until relieved by his successor, Sir Leong Cheng Tung.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkerMb8NY9WfGnV6UEvdrvjH3quOabCb7GvUgHrC_YBErFcY-rxi3dEZpkBxjbKyxDWOZuYq7YWVlscxZrh8GjC3h7B68eRh4k80l85fi_Du9o43YbW7bG1GSucLdM8b2-hlSMOQHe_KLuf3XX0BHDeye7_buxGJcB2rHi-4CCq5o9cK-sYGRjUpux7BA/s1624/1902_08_14%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Evening%20Post%20p6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1345" data-original-width="1624" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkerMb8NY9WfGnV6UEvdrvjH3quOabCb7GvUgHrC_YBErFcY-rxi3dEZpkBxjbKyxDWOZuYq7YWVlscxZrh8GjC3h7B68eRh4k80l85fi_Du9o43YbW7bG1GSucLdM8b2-hlSMOQHe_KLuf3XX0BHDeye7_buxGJcB2rHi-4CCq5o9cK-sYGRjUpux7BA/w200-h166/1902_08_14%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Evening%20Post%20p6.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>New York Herald</i>, August 14, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese Societies Say Farewell to Minister Wu at Elaborate Dinner in an Oriental Restaurant </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>Leading Members of Flowery Kingdom’s Colony Pay Their Final Respects. </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>Wealth of Queer Dishes</div><div><br /></div><div>Minister Wu Ting-fang was the guest at a farewell dinner given yesterday afternoon by the various societies of Chinatown, and partook of the most toothsome dishes that Chinese chefs can prepare. The feast was in the Mon Far Low restaurant, at No. 14 Mott street, and began at two o’clock.</div><div><br /></div><div>Loo Lin, the proprietor, charged between $20 and $23 a plate. The banquet was in fact, the most costly ever held in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and was under the immediate supervision of Secretary Wu, of the Chinese Embassy, who is a member of the same distinguished Chinese family as Minister Wu himself.</div><div><br /></div><div>At the close of the banquet the Ministerial party paid a call on the Chinese Consul, at one of his offices, in the joss house, No. 20 Mott street. Mr. Wu and his secretaries then left Chinatown for Washington, where he will remain until relieved by his successor, Sir Liang Cheng Tung.</div><div><br /></div><div>Among the dainties provided yesterday were Bok Du Quai Chu, Sai Foo, spring duck, fruit, chicken, edible birds’ nest, sharks’ fins, yellow fish brain, sui chen, chicken salad, boiled pure mushrooms, Lychee nuts, yan man, ginger, pears, pineapple, rice, boneless fish, crab omelette, fried spring squab and mushroom chicken. There were seventeen courses in all.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8QLzqv4Q123dt3Rbxrr1rtR7-M38FryiOD3ZMY8qK9V1pCScoMPtDWROcUM1dQgm7-5selfvy-bdRzZgHt45zU0rYxOjOmBUraK-jhTO3NLkSdWQ1piIWHdu5hGnumaL9zFVFCoY_F3Xb3LCBx1nhMEh2G6yeEAIEHqib-D9XS-4x62JVL0OmYK9CQV0/s3857/1902_08_14%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Herald%20p4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3857" data-original-width="3069" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8QLzqv4Q123dt3Rbxrr1rtR7-M38FryiOD3ZMY8qK9V1pCScoMPtDWROcUM1dQgm7-5selfvy-bdRzZgHt45zU0rYxOjOmBUraK-jhTO3NLkSdWQ1piIWHdu5hGnumaL9zFVFCoY_F3Xb3LCBx1nhMEh2G6yeEAIEHqib-D9XS-4x62JVL0OmYK9CQV0/w319-h400/1902_08_14%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Herald%20p4.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i> (Pennsylvania), August 14, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Farewell Dinner to Minister Wu</div><div>The Most Expensive Spread Ever Given in New York’s Chinatown</div><div>New York Aug.13.—Minister Wu Ting-fang, was the guest at a farewell dinner given this afternoon by the various societies of Chinatown, and partook of the most toothsome dishes that Chinese chefs can prepare. The feast was in the Mon Par [sic] Low restaurant, at No. 14 Mott street, and began at 2 o’clock.</div><div><br /></div><div>Loo Lin, the proprietor, charged between $20 and $23 a plate. The banquet was the most costly ever held in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and was under the immediate supervision of Secretary Wu, of the Chinese Embassy, who is a member of the same distinguished Chinese family as Minister Wu himself.</div><div><br /></div><div>At the close of the banquet the ministerial party paid a call on the Chinese Consul and Mr. Wu later left Chinatown for Washington.</div><div><br /></div><div>Among the dainties provided were Bok du quaien, Sai Foo, spring duck, fruit, chicken, edible bird’s nests, sharks’ fins, yellow fish brains, Fui shen, chicken salad, boiled pure mushrooms, Lychee nuts, Yan-man, ginger, pears, pineapple, rice, boneless fish, crab omelette, fried spring squab and mushroom chicken.</div><div><br /></div><div>There were seventeen courses in all.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvt2eox5-Ke_Lbch61fCRe3WUm97FWNGVaDuo8067CQ60LfTlT2VWxeotLDN_HFjanNpfVqd7oIznTAV2mJMGycNOcxBWnxIkSeTJaRtzqXWKL8HrIhfMqHrrpUCnLW3gz8vCzQjQzSUdN4yDUAZ__lIZV6ZPR76CTiC0uKWwpM0bbu40JByCDZOq-_M/s2388/1902_08_14%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20Philadelphia%20Inquirer%20(PA)%20p6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2388" data-original-width="977" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvt2eox5-Ke_Lbch61fCRe3WUm97FWNGVaDuo8067CQ60LfTlT2VWxeotLDN_HFjanNpfVqd7oIznTAV2mJMGycNOcxBWnxIkSeTJaRtzqXWKL8HrIhfMqHrrpUCnLW3gz8vCzQjQzSUdN4yDUAZ__lIZV6ZPR76CTiC0uKWwpM0bbu40JByCDZOq-_M/s320/1902_08_14%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20Philadelphia%20Inquirer%20(PA)%20p6.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Articles about visiting New York’s Chinatown appeared in the <i>Atlanta Journal</i> (Georgia).</div><div><br /></div><div>August 24, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>New York’s Chinatown by Night; Joss-House, Theatre and Cafe</div><div>… Now we are off to a Chinese restaurant, Mon Far Low s, 14 Mott street, the Sherry’s of Chinatown, where the prince was banqueted during his visit to this quarter. And here’s where we find out what “chop suey” is, for our guide who knows well the intricacies of the place, orders chop suey, rice and Long Sou tea for us. We have to count eenie, meenie, to decide on the brand of tea, for how are we to know the difference between “Long Sou, Sui Shen, Long Dung, Lok On, Hong May, Chin Yen and Lin Sam?”</div><div><br /></div><div>Mon Far, a dapper, clever looking little Chinaman, waits on us himself, evidently enjoying the interest of his “Melican” patrons. And the chop suey? It isn’t heathenish at all save in its unintelligible conglameration [sic]. It consists of chopped chicken, onions, pickles and dozens of other unrecognizable things but it’s awfully good. And the rice, the best ever cooked; to those whose taste is satisfied with it in its original dryness. The tea? Simply charming in its pungency and flavor. Of course we must eat with shop sticks. Mon Far has given us uninteresting American forks but he gladly substitutes chopsticks at our request, showing us how to manipulate them to the best advantage. We don’t often succeed in getting them to the mouth holding more than two grains of rice, and we learn that there’s many a slip twixt the stick and the lip, but at least we have the enjoyment of the novelty. Before leaving, we purchase some of the sticks to practice dexterity in the art of eating with them. …</div></blockquote><div>August 31, 1902</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Summer Topics in New York</div><div>The Coal Strike—The Subway—New York Economy—Where the Chinese Prince Was Banqueted</div><div><br /></div><div>... Smiles and Chop Suey.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Mon Far Low” was the name of the restaurant—why “far” or why “low” were equally mysterious. Mr. Loo Lin, the manager himself, waited on us with a bonhomie that was a revelation in the Chinese. He knew how to smile. With his smiles he served chop soy and rice and Long Sou tea; and although there were knives and forks in deference to American perversion of taste, we tried our prowess with the chop-sticks, and managed to pilot successfully formulate to lips several mouthfuls. The tea—leaves and all—was served in the prettiest of little pink dishes with covers manipulated so skillfully that the clear beverage was poured off into small cups, the leaves remaining in the dish to await more hot water and appetite for a second cup. That tea was delicious; the rice could not have been better; but the chop soy remained a stranger!</div><div><br /></div><div>A look into the joss house gorgeous with new-laws, and into the Christian mission with its simple hall, its Bible and its minister, furnished a suggestive contrast. ...</div></blockquote><div></div><div><div>Professor Leong Kai Cheu’s visit to Chinatown was reported in the following newspapers. </div><div><br /></div><div>New York <i>Evening Post</i>, May 13, 1903</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Crowds in Doyers Street</div><div>Prof. Leong, Chinese Reformer, Speaking in Theatre.</div><div><br /></div><div>Patriotic Fugitive Welcomed by Mott, Pell, and Doyers Street Merchants—Not Much Surface Enthusiasm, But All Chinatown Out to Greet the Visitor—The Dowager Empress After Prof. Leong’s Head.</div><div><br /></div><div>Prof. Leong Kai Cheu, who at the early age of twelve achieved the degree of B.A., and four years later was made M.A., and who is the founder and Vice-President of the “Chinese Empire Reform Association,” delivered a lecture at two o’clock this afternoon in the Chinese theatre in Doyer Street on the reform movement in China. Professor Leong has been condemned to death as often as any man in China who has lived to tell the tale. Once upon a time he was teacher in the palace of the Emperor of China, a position which he filled to the great dislike of the Dowager Empress, who is in high opposition to anything savoring of reform in China. Had the Empress Dowager had her way, Professor Leong would probably have had to lecture this afternoon with his head in his hand. However, the noted Chinaman succeeded in keeping a firm grip on his head piece and with it fled from the Chinese empire, still faithful to the reform movement.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chinatown was not to-day in such an excess of joy over the presence of the noted reformer as might have been expected in such an enthusiastic region, and when some of the merchants were asked why it was that only one or two banners hung from the second-story windows of Mott and Pell and Doyer Streets and the fire crackers seemed to be absent, answer was made that Professor Leong, like a true reformer, was unwilling that any great amount of expenditure should be made to welcome him to the Chinese settlement in New York.</div><div><br /></div><div>“He is a very modest man,” was the explanation of Soy Kee, a Pell Street merchant, “and he would very much rather have his countrymen present in the theatre than remain at home and raise flags and fire firecrackers.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Although no widespread demonstration was made throughout Chinatown when Professor Leong arrived within the Celestial boundaries, the entire region was alert and waiting for him long before the noon hour. In his train, when he arrived at the Chinese theatre, were Soy Kee, Chu Si Kong, of Chicago; Charlie Yip Yen of Vancouver, B.C.; Pow Chee, the reformer’s interpreter, and Wong Wai Chee. These Celestials are to meet to-night at a banquet at No. 14 Mott Street, which is Mon Far Low’s restaurant “For All Nations,” which Mr. Kee confidentially assures all inquirers, is to last at least four hours, and to be enlivened by long speeches upon the reform movement in China.</div><div><br /></div><div>The resident of Chinatown apparently had on their best bibs and tuckers early this morning and were standing around the entrances to their shops, restaurants, and warehouses, discussing the coming of Professor Leong. Many Chinese babies were in evidence on the doorsteps as if there were some chance, perhaps, that Professor Leong would follow in the path of Western reformers and kiss some of the offspring. The Chinese have made much of Professor Leong since his arrival in this country, and he has visited many of the leading merchants of Chinatown, in token of which these merchants made a proud exhibit of the reformer’s crimson card covered with black sprawling hieroglyphs. There are at least four thousand members in the reform associations in this city, and it is to arouse enthusiasm among them that Professor Leong has made a visit to this country. The headquarters of the association in this city are at No. 20 Mott Street, where Professor Leong was entertained yesterday at a luncheon and reception.</div><div><br /></div><div>Leong a Fugitive.</div><div><br /></div><div>Professor Leong has been learned ever since he was small. He was born in the Province of Kwang-Tung and at the age of nineteen, after taking the Imperial examinations, in which slim-beared men usually take part, he was chosen tutor at the Hun-On Palace, a post of distinction beside the royal family. This work did not prove entirely congenial to him and in half a year he resigned, and became editor of a daily paper, which the alert Dowager Empress quickly suppressed, its editorials proving highly distasteful to her imperial ideas. The reformer then fled to Pekin and started the Progress, which made his name famous all over the north of China, and again incurred the displeasure of the Empress. This august lady was chary about suppressing so prominent a paper, and as an apparent means of extrication from the dilemma in which she found herself, a number of viceroys and cabinet ministers suggested him for appointment to Government service. This was more than the Empress could stand, and she put her imperial foot down upon the project. Minister Wu Ting Fang wrote from Washington asking for his services as Chief Secretary of legation, but Professor Leong had other things in mind, and politely declined the office. Later, however, he accepted the directorship of Woo Nan University in a province know[n] to be one of the most conservative in all China. This did not deter Professor Leong, who continued his work of reform with signal success. After this, his work in China involved the greatest amount of risk, inasmuch as the Empress seemed determined to rid herself of his influence in the Empire, especially as numerous modern educational methods had been introduced by Professor Leong. The climax was reached when the Empress and her Manchurian vassals conspired imprisonment of the Emperor and the banishment or decapitation of his retainers and advisers. Then it was that Professor Leong fled post haste to Japan, taking refuge on a Japanese warship.</div><div><br /></div><div>Crowds to Hear Him.</div><div><br /></div><div>It was to hear the record of his achievements in reform in China and of his hopes for an augmentation of the strength of this movement in America that the Chinamen gathered in the theatre in Doyer Street this afternoon. Long before two o’clock a chattering crowd of Chinamen had gathered at the theatre entrance, and were elbowing and pushing their way to gain admission. Meetings in Chinese theatre are proverbially noisy, and it seemed that when the time should come for Professor Leong to make his appearance there would be a great deal of difficulty in hearing him. Professor Leong is a young man, having just reached thirty, an age which seems to leave no impress upon the stoical Celestial features, and dresses in European clothing. He does not speak English, having his fidus Achates Mr. Pow Chee always at his elbow when it is necessary to converse with those of the Western world. This is Professor Leong’s first visit to America, and he arrived here on Monday, having come from Japan by way of China.</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2XWuPH-3ObwKsn5bG9vKLAAvcj8oGClH_nKxCw2wijjd95ZMAG7EpCnPu6E8BuS3SXMSjNPyQM9g4AZHznY1rWzZUPcPEJxZ8DCWCp4lhrhq40If3TAyyqYyVAoHsA_snG32d9j5AvGP2CM7tTYGkR5g8x4ngmKhEHdeN5ZXE-lXnUHcBOlfemgtB0es/s4523/1903_05_13%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Evening%20Post%20p1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4523" data-original-width="1182" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2XWuPH-3ObwKsn5bG9vKLAAvcj8oGClH_nKxCw2wijjd95ZMAG7EpCnPu6E8BuS3SXMSjNPyQM9g4AZHznY1rWzZUPcPEJxZ8DCWCp4lhrhq40If3TAyyqYyVAoHsA_snG32d9j5AvGP2CM7tTYGkR5g8x4ngmKhEHdeN5ZXE-lXnUHcBOlfemgtB0es/w170-h640/1903_05_13%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Evening%20Post%20p1.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>New York <i>Evening Telegram</i>, May 13 1903</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese Reformer Here Lecturing</div><div>Professor Leong Kai Cheu Is a Fugitive, Having Incurred Displeasure of Empress Dowager.</div><div><br /></div><div>The inhabitants, of Chinatown gathered in great force this afternoon at the theatre in Doyer street to listen to a lecture by Professor Leong Kai Cheu, founder and vice president of the Chinese Empire Reform Association.</div><div><br /></div><div>The professor arrived Monday from Japan, where he had been for the benefit of his health—not that he was ill, but because he feared he might contract that complaint, so common and fatal to reformers in China, decapitation.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Chinese have made much of Professor Leong since his arrival in this country, and he has visited, many of the leading merchants of Chinatown. There are at least four thousand numbers in the reform associations in this city, and it is to arouse enthusiasm among them that Professor Leong has made a visit to this country. The headquarters of the association in this city are at No. 20 Mott street, where Professor Leong was entertained yesterday at a luncheon and reception.</div><div><br /></div><div>Professor Leong has been learned ever since he was small. He was born in the province of Kwang-Tung and at the age of nineteen he was chosen tutor at the Hun-On Palace, a post of distinction beside the royal family. This work did not prove entirely congenial to him and in half a year he resigned and became the editor of a daily paper, which the alert Dowager Empress quickly suppressed, its editorials proving highly distasteful to her imperial ideas. The reformer then fled to Pekin and started the Progress, which made his name famous all over the north of China, and again incurred the displeasure of the Empress.</div><div><br /></div><div>Later be accepted the directorship of Woo Nan University in a province known to be one of the most conservative in all China. This did not deter Professor Leong, who continued his work of reform with signal success. After this, his work in China involved the greatest amount of risk. Inasmuch as the Empress seemed determined to rid herself of his influence in the Empire, especially as numerous modern educational methods had been introduced by Professor Leong. The climax was, reached when the Empress and her Manchurian vassals conspired imprisonment of the Emperor and the banishment or decapitation of his retainers and advisers.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then it was that Professor Leong fled post haste to Japan, taking refuge on a Japanese war ship. In his train when he arrived at the Chinese theatre were Soy Kee, Chu Si Kong, of Chicago; Charlie Yip Yen, of Vancouver, B. C.; Pow Chee, the reformer’s interpreter and Wong Wai Chee. These Celestials are to meet to-night at a banquet at No. 14 Mott street, which is Mon Far Low’s restaurant “For All Nations.”</div><div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXBAC1oywJagV2FiXUyYsavRWG59f00aHjOKeyN4Ft139FMEQncvgo088MU1mf_kY6PQNEloe0sajX9nYbMHPQJ6pICn-w06pf4qE1ZIpMEVfM9UehJjs0GG19uLi-39kFIBFIx2VwWNlebIweKQRO-0wczJqijY_Vun99x6edijeZGV2jI8szsSxr0ns/s3203/1903_05_13%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Evening%20Telegram%20p13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3203" data-original-width="1038" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXBAC1oywJagV2FiXUyYsavRWG59f00aHjOKeyN4Ft139FMEQncvgo088MU1mf_kY6PQNEloe0sajX9nYbMHPQJ6pICn-w06pf4qE1ZIpMEVfM9UehJjs0GG19uLi-39kFIBFIx2VwWNlebIweKQRO-0wczJqijY_Vun99x6edijeZGV2jI8szsSxr0ns/w133-h400/1903_05_13%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Evening%20Telegram%20p13.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1903-05-14/ed-1/seq-5/" target="_blank">New York <i>Sun</i></a>, May 14, 1903</div><div></div><blockquote><div>China’s Boss Reformer Here</div><div>Leong Kai Cheu Is Seeking to Arouse Enthusiasm.</div><div>Had Trouble Running a Newspaper in His Native Land, So He Tried Awhile in Japan—Will Lecture Here Almost Daily—Dinner in His Honor Last Night.</div><div><br /></div><div>Prof. Leong Kai Ka Cheu, reformer, late of China, but now resident of Japan, where he edits a new reform newspaper every day, gathered all New York’s Chinatown around him in the Chinese theatre in Doyers street yesterday to listen to a lecture on reform. Prof. Leong’s friends say he is the William Travers Jerome of China—“man who acts by day and night.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Prof. Leong is a hustler. He got his degree of A. B. when he was only 12 years old and the degree of A. M. when he was 16. When he was 19 he took the Imperial examinations and became tutor at the Hun-on Palace, according to his friends. He tutored for a year and a half ht and then started a daily newspaper.</div><div><br /></div><div>The editorials of Prof. Leong were so radically that the Empress Dowager made him shut up shop. He went to Pekin and tried to run his paper again. The Empress for some reason apparently didn’t want him killed or didn’t know just how to accomplish it, so she finally got him the job of director of the Woo Nan University, hoping that he would keep quiet.</div><div><br /></div><div>He didn’t remain quiet and when the Empress Dowager’s enemies heard, just before the outbreak of the war in China, that she was going to decapitate a lot of people he skipped to Japan. A Japanese warship helped him in his escape.</div><div><br /></div><div>Arrived in Japan, Prof. Leong saw no reason why he should not continue editing a reform newspaper for benighted Chinese. When the Chinese officials saw the reform editorials they said the paper must not enter China. Prof. Leong thereupon changed its name and got out another issue before the officials discovered the subterfuge.</div><div><br /></div><div>“And this he did at every ever issue,” said Loo Sin of 14 Mott street, a member of the committee of welcome. “It was like this: One day the paper would be the “Sun.” Next day it would be the “World” and next day the “Herald” and so on, and so on. Names are easy to get.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Prof. Leong arrived on the Pacific Coast several weeks ago and is making a tour of the country to interest Chinese in reform at home. By reform he means more schools, hospitals, a Chinese navy for the Chinese and no more graft for the Manchurians. The war cry is “China for the Chinese.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Prof. Leong, who is only 30 years year old and who wears American clothes, is accompanied here by his interpreter, Pow Chee; Chu Si Kong, head of the Chinese reformers in Chicago; Charlie Yip Yen, the boss reformer of Vancouver, B. C., and two others. </div><div><br /></div><div>They arrived at the Grand Central Station on Monday night and were met by a reception committee of twenty-six New York Chinamen, each of whom wore a silk hat and a big yellow badge. Prof. Leong and his travelling companions lectured yesterday afternoon to about about 2,000 Chinese in the little Doyers street theatre. As many more were unable to get in.</div><div><br /></div><div>Leong and his associates will be here for several weeks. Lectures will be held almost every day. Last night the whole party met the representative men of Chinatown at Mon Far Low’s restaurant at 14 Mott street. The only toast was “Reform.” Proprietor Mon Far Low, who is no relative of Mayor Low, provided champagne in which to drink the toast.</div><div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinKxhTsgcZKbCHUo6AINEFJfOi_zseULxor5F1nm1ClMq5ZhQcW3IUs3UMCsuJkOM72qpXvw86cs0lNtaaPmB2Kp36Y2QtXfSFMGi57EDQ_sy_jLzvhTpeFHA-L-SkE5jhTdSzuVLJglkB7cakneqEh8Joi5K4nOyTHWvzGYsbxsAN8enXmDnrGprWfRk/s2954/1903_05_14%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20The%20Sun%20(New%20York%20NY)%20p5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2954" data-original-width="719" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinKxhTsgcZKbCHUo6AINEFJfOi_zseULxor5F1nm1ClMq5ZhQcW3IUs3UMCsuJkOM72qpXvw86cs0lNtaaPmB2Kp36Y2QtXfSFMGi57EDQ_sy_jLzvhTpeFHA-L-SkE5jhTdSzuVLJglkB7cakneqEh8Joi5K4nOyTHWvzGYsbxsAN8enXmDnrGprWfRk/w160-h640/1903_05_14%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20The%20Sun%20(New%20York%20NY)%20p5.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The <i>Rochester Democrat and Chronicle</i> (New York), August 30, 1903, noted the dining experience by one of its residents. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Lives to Tell Tale.</div><div>Rochester Man Passes Through a Weird Experience in China Restaurant.</div><div>Thomas Verhoeven, of this city, has just returned from a trip to New York. Mr. Verhoeven has many surprising incidents to relate connected with his trip, but the one he delights in dwelling on the longest is a dinner that he took at the Mon Far Low, the leading Chinese restaurant in New York city, conducted by Loo Lin.</div><div><br /></div><div>The most surprising thing connected with the repast is that Mr. Verhoeven is alive to tell the tale, for after a man has dined on “Hing Sun Chop Sooy,” “Chu Gay Squab,” “Sweet and Pungent Chicken,” “Edible Birds’ Nests,” “Yellow Fish Brain,” “Sharks’ Fins,” “Bok Du Qual Chu,” “Ya Ko Main,” and many other like delicacies, if he escapes the grave, death can have few terrors.</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaN6eJuaFBsuvRjxSPWCldkLI16-cwCrPlis0cVoFgALlCtMPx-mhmyzXMzmH3r0mVGQFnMJHPql9UVBNtehE6ZnoPh5c0zp28EhA0cTIv_ZCgem-v-XK5C-A-zN4YzegsBnRqdxTO8HeubwdRMTN6zR7Q9EvbUYtuLfYYMXD10B8hD-kRvBTnjaP89c/s1302/1903_08_30%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20Rochester%20Democrat%20and%20Chronicle%20(NY)%20p19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1302" data-original-width="1160" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaN6eJuaFBsuvRjxSPWCldkLI16-cwCrPlis0cVoFgALlCtMPx-mhmyzXMzmH3r0mVGQFnMJHPql9UVBNtehE6ZnoPh5c0zp28EhA0cTIv_ZCgem-v-XK5C-A-zN4YzegsBnRqdxTO8HeubwdRMTN6zR7Q9EvbUYtuLfYYMXD10B8hD-kRvBTnjaP89c/w179-h200/1903_08_30%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20Rochester%20Democrat%20and%20Chronicle%20(NY)%20p19.jpg" width="179" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The birth and celebration of <a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_leslies-weekly_1904-07-28_99_2551/page/78/mode/2up" target="_blank">Lee Yick You’s son</a> was covered in several newspapers. </div><div><br /></div><div><i>The New York Times</i>, March 29, 1904</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinatown to Have Birthday Party.</div><div>Francis M. Hamilton, Solicitor to Collector Stranahan, and several other members of the Customs Service received elaborately engraved invitations yesterday from Mr. and Mrs. Lee Yick Yon [sic] for a banquet at 14 Mott Street next Thursday evening in honor of the birth of their son. Lee Gin Yon. Lee Yick Yon is a large importer of Chinese merchandise.</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYvpaUp80WrE4QmafrLGDYzIjLm4FeiSQFxYWFcLpW8P_pkASc3UKWn2QuTF6isNQEK2T6lFOsLC-XKWsL1L3IBl95KmyNQab9JV0uV91tzzFd5LNcxW107JPszY-2SXodIacAiYN6l_vwyq4HF4AsiHPcR-t4_me48xeirsQwdl-na1BL5enErEi91fA/s1474/1904_03_29%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Times%20p16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="1474" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYvpaUp80WrE4QmafrLGDYzIjLm4FeiSQFxYWFcLpW8P_pkASc3UKWn2QuTF6isNQEK2T6lFOsLC-XKWsL1L3IBl95KmyNQab9JV0uV91tzzFd5LNcxW107JPszY-2SXodIacAiYN6l_vwyq4HF4AsiHPcR-t4_me48xeirsQwdl-na1BL5enErEi91fA/w200-h104/1904_03_29%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Times%20p16.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>New York <i>Herald</i>, April 1, 1904</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Occident and Orient at Chinese Feast</div><div>New Yorkers in Evening Dress Guests of Mr. Lee Yick You at Typical Birthday Festival.</div><div>Seventy women and men clad in conventional evening dress and a score of the Sons of the Celestial Empire sat together last evening at a dinner unique in its appointments and lavishly strange and generous as to its edibles.</div><div><br /></div><div>The host of the entertainment, which was served in a private dining room of Mon Far Low’s Chinese restaurant, at No. 14 Mott street, was Mr. Lee Yick You, a wealthy importer, of No. 34 Pell street, and in giving the feast the host was following out an ancient custom of the Yellow Empire and honoring Mrs. Lee Yick You, whose youngest child, Master Lee Gin You, was one month old yesterday.</div><div><br /></div><div>The guest was Mr. Francis M. Hamilton, Solicitor of the Custom House. Mr. Yan Phou Lee, a graduate of Yale and a wealthy importer of this city, presided.</div><div><br /></div><div>The decorations were exceedingly ornate, the tables being covered with flowers strange in form and color, while on the walls and suspended from the ceiling were silken banners bearing the device of the dragon.</div><div><br /></div><div>During the dinner Master Lee Gin You, clad in rich robes of red silk and as fat and wide awake a little youngster as ever opened his eyes on an evening gathering, was brought in by a Chinese maid and passed around among the company. The ladles were permitted to kiss the youngster, and his health and that of his mother was drunk by all present. Master You looked at the proceedings through his almond shaped eyes, but made no comment.</div><div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4n2g5RaCWh1kSXpJO4n8rkrGodqxniVxLPHDGHvnApLi210tRd3uf9sO-0NE_mPvLIQM0nRzSSt4keyOjfzdF1oi_Zb33TfNPeAYg3EDKvJrOOfaQvyOxO4j4NVRLM3bjreEa8Is0G2hSQwl42L625iMVuGJQaqn861oUhxA5NEOi4-aKUeQRjKiZ0iY/s2134/1904_04_01%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Herald%20p9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2134" data-original-width="1033" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4n2g5RaCWh1kSXpJO4n8rkrGodqxniVxLPHDGHvnApLi210tRd3uf9sO-0NE_mPvLIQM0nRzSSt4keyOjfzdF1oi_Zb33TfNPeAYg3EDKvJrOOfaQvyOxO4j4NVRLM3bjreEa8Is0G2hSQwl42L625iMVuGJQaqn861oUhxA5NEOi4-aKUeQRjKiZ0iY/s320/1904_04_01%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Herald%20p9.jpg" width="155" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The <i>New York Press</i>, April 1, 1904</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese Baby at a Dinner.</div><div>Many Government Employee Guests of Proud Father, Lee Yick You</div><div>Seventy men and women clad in conventional evening dress and a score of Chinese say together last evening at a dinner odd in its appointments.It was served in a private dining room of Mon Far Low’s restaurant in No. 14 Mott street, and the host was Lee Yick You, a wealthy importer of No. 34 Pell street. He was honoring Mrs. Lee Yick You, whose youngest child, Lee Gin You, was one month old yesterday. The chief guest was Francis M. Hamilton, solicitor of the Custom House, and the other guests included a dozen members of the United States Appraisers’ staff. Yan Phou Lee, a graduate of Yale, presided. </div><div><br /></div><div>The tables were covered with strange flowers, and there were silken banners and lanterns on all sides. The menu included such dishes as pineapple chicken, fried spring squab, bird’s nest soup, sharks’ fins, yellowfish brains, jun gee duck and but bow chicken, all go which were washed down with real Sui Shen and long sou teas.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lee Gin You, in rich robes of red silk, was brought in by a Chinese maid and passed around among the company. The women were permitted to kiss the youngster, and his health was drunk.</div><div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEharaOjd-dcQM4Wa-SCWQIgtCvnpTQSCXsTu0FXtsJySAGhwFEze7t6B03VIG7L477XIKbMH1_cTMDSl6GbSHG6ehStcLeTT3qbUivq-zNf4Ujwevki1cnU0STcSMndwdYMqHXGCIJWawR95-LYkDyTkokExNqQu-O0RGk7cwnOMLx3WsHCFWtm4-KOJyM/s1671/1904_04_01%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Press%20p9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1671" data-original-width="1259" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEharaOjd-dcQM4Wa-SCWQIgtCvnpTQSCXsTu0FXtsJySAGhwFEze7t6B03VIG7L477XIKbMH1_cTMDSl6GbSHG6ehStcLeTT3qbUivq-zNf4Ujwevki1cnU0STcSMndwdYMqHXGCIJWawR95-LYkDyTkokExNqQu-O0RGk7cwnOMLx3WsHCFWtm4-KOJyM/w151-h200/1904_04_01%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Press%20p9.jpg" width="151" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i>The New York Times</i>, April 1, 1904</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Big Fete for Celestial Baby.</div><div>Company Honors Master lee Gin You at Banquet in Chinatown.</div><div>Seventy women and men clad in conventional evening dress and a score of the sons of the Celestial Empire were the guests at dinner last evening of Lee Yick You, an importer at 34 Pell Street. It was served in a private dining room of Mon Far Low’s Chinese restaurant at 14 Mott Street. In giving the feast the host was following out an ancient Chinese custom in honoring Mrs. Lee Yick You, whose youngest child, Master Lee Gin You, was one month old yesterday. </div><div><br /></div><div>The guest of honor was Francis M. Hamilton, Solicitor of the Custom House. Yan Phou Lee, a graduate of Yale, and a wealthy importer of this city, presided. The tables were covered with flowers, strange both in form and color, while on the walls and suspended from the celling were silken banners bearing the device of the dragon, and bewildering as to color were other flags, banners, and lanterns.</div><div><br /></div><div>The menu included dishes dear to the Celestial heart, such as pine apple chicken, fried Spring squab, mushroom chicken, bird’s nest soup, shark’s fins, yellow fish brains, chestnut chicken, and Jun Gee duck, washed down with Sui Shen and Long Sou teas specially imported for the occasion.</div><div><br /></div><div>During the dinner Master Lee Gin You, clad in rich robes of red silk, was brought in by a Chinese maid and passed around among the company. The ladles were permitted to kiss the youngster, and his health and that of his mother was drunk by all present.</div><div><br /></div><div>Complimentary addresses were made by Mr. Hamilton, Miss Harriet Quimbey, a newspaper woman of San Francisco; Capt. William Lee, Treasury Agent D. E. Galboldy, and Capt. Howard Patterson of the New York Nautical School.</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjApxVAu7rVhWCNX04sHnOFeiikW5CKN67OfK2yn9QXhr_zsoMUvLg66N_Z4eR8QBLDDhBKy4pZTG0eha32mIUFwc3sJwTPejoUlApMQ-4S-m_KvwU1qFPW-TtEyBogreB5MAau9vkD2ZeIV9OUWqQ5q1KiZ8r2Cn3QyC_q2h3tfpoO0UJ_8gY4_jjJ48c/s2229/1904_04_01%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20The%20New%20York%20Times%20p.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2229" data-original-width="1070" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjApxVAu7rVhWCNX04sHnOFeiikW5CKN67OfK2yn9QXhr_zsoMUvLg66N_Z4eR8QBLDDhBKy4pZTG0eha32mIUFwc3sJwTPejoUlApMQ-4S-m_KvwU1qFPW-TtEyBogreB5MAau9vkD2ZeIV9OUWqQ5q1KiZ8r2Cn3QyC_q2h3tfpoO0UJ_8gY4_jjJ48c/s320/1904_04_01%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20The%20New%20York%20Times%20p.jpg" width="154" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldir1904p2trow/page/n695/mode/2up?q=%22Mine+Far+Low%22" target="_blank">Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, City of New York</a></i>, July 1, 1904 had a listing for “Mine Far Low” at 14 Mott Street. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghcef2eWVE8QmTY-cdwHtWJNvowmznKqrPrAkIwKf6vvxVJT4YJC-_ldURDzCnTkpEGdl6GLwsGi9-27I5Xuai5ZyvUC6a8nn87JY6XNdlWCQT_POVfdMD8tU8CsyMFzBKq2RF2-eDnm5R-hFApBHllv_S1omBHNhNIhAbVN6ynYtKLNJF1pRN3Mcy-3U/s1335/1904%20Mine%20Far%20Low%20Trow%E2%80%99s%20General%20Directory%20of%20Manhattan%20and%20Bronx.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="1335" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghcef2eWVE8QmTY-cdwHtWJNvowmznKqrPrAkIwKf6vvxVJT4YJC-_ldURDzCnTkpEGdl6GLwsGi9-27I5Xuai5ZyvUC6a8nn87JY6XNdlWCQT_POVfdMD8tU8CsyMFzBKq2RF2-eDnm5R-hFApBHllv_S1omBHNhNIhAbVN6ynYtKLNJF1pRN3Mcy-3U/w200-h121/1904%20Mine%20Far%20Low%20Trow%E2%80%99s%20General%20Directory%20of%20Manhattan%20and%20Bronx.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv-wDrgzV_9WLieFDdNF5nkS5-5993SV1oYGBTNLBEmdqVZ3JMum12WLYnf5aL4a-AvmeOK-5_60uuLl3ttAwL9TJJYuwtFwiusAWPVrVVuAydtCulAKzSlY-JZsXi4O8TtE1V1WRKZV5I7uxxUB0GJWp0iBTQu4bqDB5rOTvzvFibcvqEisBLie7YWis/s1663/Mine%20Far%20Low%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1663" data-original-width="1067" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv-wDrgzV_9WLieFDdNF5nkS5-5993SV1oYGBTNLBEmdqVZ3JMum12WLYnf5aL4a-AvmeOK-5_60uuLl3ttAwL9TJJYuwtFwiusAWPVrVVuAydtCulAKzSlY-JZsXi4O8TtE1V1WRKZV5I7uxxUB0GJWp0iBTQu4bqDB5rOTvzvFibcvqEisBLie7YWis/w258-h400/Mine%20Far%20Low%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%2001.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">14 Mott Street on the right;</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mine Far Low Restaurant sign</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJmtl5_HXgIsuXyRnkYjcuhGIihZSaEz_BDXO7m9pCG0P-DDCbdzH24ikS7Cd7Ca6vcIzI1-P0wiCxJw0ZX_CS-mF7KlAWEH3F9SIhZh7JA_oysrQ3VKjuYP7KoNoz8T1qGrtppn_Kfvb9qCQ7sC-RDWvL1DcGvtimu3JqJxkfxGr-TMHnEe3Q8nbEcI/s1662/Mine%20Far%20Low%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1662" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJmtl5_HXgIsuXyRnkYjcuhGIihZSaEz_BDXO7m9pCG0P-DDCbdzH24ikS7Cd7Ca6vcIzI1-P0wiCxJw0ZX_CS-mF7KlAWEH3F9SIhZh7JA_oysrQ3VKjuYP7KoNoz8T1qGrtppn_Kfvb9qCQ7sC-RDWvL1DcGvtimu3JqJxkfxGr-TMHnEe3Q8nbEcI/w400-h256/Mine%20Far%20Low%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%2002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Date unknown</div><div><br /></div><div><i>The New York Times</i>, November 2, 1904, said </div><blockquote><div>Chinatown’s Cupid Busy.</div><div>Winged Three Couples in One Night at Chop Suey Parlor.</div><div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div>Three men, two maids, and a dashing young widow made a hastily planned trip through Chinatown one night six weeks ago. Before the outing ended the Chinese Cupid had paired them off. Two of the three couples are already wedded. The third will follow suit the first week of the new year.</div><div><br /></div><div>From all accounts the little god began to get busy when the chop suey was served in Loo Ling’s restaurant, 14 Mott Street. The first wedding took place within a month, when ex-Congressman Henry Cassorte Smith of Michigan, now general counsel of the Michigan Central Railroad, and Miss Virginia Bassett were married at the Church of the Transfiguration. ...</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFHDvOvob6_YC3EknunqVOZbElq6AWN41DKiWBS9GiboomCzJjIjQsSkeNfiRRQK97PJRQ2eE3G6Ua6zn2WDoaRW-U16dDHDBPyU-qPXo-8E0qhiv7mZHVAB7jCiN77ZyY4QzQCVBwQtmLKwC4Y1p-r0lB_EqfOX8Px4t6Ke56FtDVS2mXqPDGEb2-xY/s2519/1904_11_02%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Times%20p6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2519" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFHDvOvob6_YC3EknunqVOZbElq6AWN41DKiWBS9GiboomCzJjIjQsSkeNfiRRQK97PJRQ2eE3G6Ua6zn2WDoaRW-U16dDHDBPyU-qPXo-8E0qhiv7mZHVAB7jCiN77ZyY4QzQCVBwQtmLKwC4Y1p-r0lB_EqfOX8Px4t6Ke56FtDVS2mXqPDGEb2-xY/s320/1904_11_02%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Times%20p6.jpg" width="127" /></a></div><br /><div>Mon Far Low’s fine was rescinded according to <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JvM6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA7530&dq=%22Mon+Far+Low%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw1OTPodmDAxUhE1kFHfdXBTkQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Mon%20Far%20Low%22&f=false On motion, it was">The City Record</a> (New York), November 4, 1904. <br /><span style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Resolved, That the Corporation Counsel be and is hereby requested to discontinue without costs the actions against the following named persons for violations of the Sanitary Code and of the Health Laws, the Inspector having reported the orders therein complied with, or the nuisances complained of abated, a permit having been granted or violations removed, or the orders rescinded, to wit: </blockquote></span></div><blockquote><div>Mon Far Low 1,022</div></blockquote><div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMTEWg2pr3NHngAkRD6d2DXgd8KfhKizi04GAEEooNznlyWivaU2smNlObAYvXB0OZOz-vnscFbLFu8i0UGo9yxac79-QrKQOCyrPUdeBRJuUaTUI_GJEcaIYDHYQfhDYplcZEhl0rT-xn_-rTBGpx-ir5wWwUj_DKj2GdSpsEgYqG-EZOI1dKAkq_t3k/s1620/1904%20circa%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Postcard%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="1060" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMTEWg2pr3NHngAkRD6d2DXgd8KfhKizi04GAEEooNznlyWivaU2smNlObAYvXB0OZOz-vnscFbLFu8i0UGo9yxac79-QrKQOCyrPUdeBRJuUaTUI_GJEcaIYDHYQfhDYplcZEhl0rT-xn_-rTBGpx-ir5wWwUj_DKj2GdSpsEgYqG-EZOI1dKAkq_t3k/w261-h400/1904%20circa%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Postcard%2001.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">14 Mott Street, second building from </div><div style="text-align: center;">the right; circa 1904</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtVL7P6zW2IGI3ToekWd-LzGuoubY3OeSRJzsLBsppbkNeR7LJoW33DRGiPhgQViVXkP20NL9TDVK7DcAJ8xmoDNlsEt0_biUMmS-hviqSYfSObcYiylCvvi0RZWuHaJiq6gkVrDJvlSqFisf8OVSaGVzKXS3jJAIG4saWII0fyeCpbLyn_-PjvOnjZE/s1629/1904%20circa%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Postcard%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1629" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtVL7P6zW2IGI3ToekWd-LzGuoubY3OeSRJzsLBsppbkNeR7LJoW33DRGiPhgQViVXkP20NL9TDVK7DcAJ8xmoDNlsEt0_biUMmS-hviqSYfSObcYiylCvvi0RZWuHaJiq6gkVrDJvlSqFisf8OVSaGVzKXS3jJAIG4saWII0fyeCpbLyn_-PjvOnjZE/w400-h259/1904%20circa%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Postcard%2002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>* * * * * * * * </div><div><br /></div><div>SIDEBAR: Loo Lin’s Wife’s Trip to America Was Tangled in Red Tape</div><div><br /></div><div>New York <i>Herald</i>, May 25, 1903</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese Wife Asks Aid of President</div><div>Barred from Husband by Red Tape, Mrs. Loo-Lin Appeals to Mr. Roosevelt.</div><div><br /></div><div>Effect of Queer Law</div><div>Because He Owns Restaurant She Is Classed as Laborer’s Wife.</div><div><br /></div><div>Both Are Well Educated</div><div>Woman Detained at San Francisco by Immigration Authorities for Weeks.</div><div><br /></div><div>Loo Lin Ben, leader of the progressive element in New York’s Chinatown, a man of culture and learning, thoroughly Americanized in most of his ways, announced last night that he had fallen back upon his early philosophy to comfort him in his distress resulting from the treatment his wife is receiving at the hands of the United States immigration officials. Mrs. Loo Lin, a woman of refinement, a teacher of recognized ability in her own country, has been held a prisoner in the detention pen in San Francisco merely because her husband, though a merchant, happens to own an interest in a restaurant.</div><div><br /></div><div>For some reason the United States government chooses to class the owner of a restaurant as a laborer, and as a Chinese laborer has no right to bring his foreign wife to this country little Mrs. Loo Lin must suffer until some official has the nerve to cut the red tape that bars her from American shores.</div><div><br /></div><div>Loo Lin’s countrymen regard him with affection, and they trust him. His American friends also trust and respect him. He has done more than any other person to drive crime from Mott and Pell streets. He is a member of the First Baptist Church, Seventy-ninth street and Broadway, and he has been active in forwarding the interests of the Morning Star Mission for Chinamen. For several years he was at the head of that mission, and he has long been a member of the Young Men’s Christian Association.</div><div><br /></div><div>Loo is the senior member of the firm of G. Ton Toy & Co., at No. 3 Mott street, where a General merchandise business is carried on. He is also associated with his brother in the restaurant at No. 14 Mott street, known as Mon Far Low, which translated into English, is “The Restaurant of Countless Flowers.” To a reporter for the Herald Loo Lin yesterday told the following story of his troubles:—</div><div><br /></div><div>“I try to be patient, but there is nothing that I have learned since my arrival in the United States, fifteen years ago, that gives me any assistance. I know that everything will come out right in the end, and in the meantime I must be a Chinese philosopher.</div><div><br /></div><div>“In the first place, my wife is not a woman of the ordinary type known in this country. She is progressive, is well educated, has been a teacher in Canton for several years, her writings have been regarded as meritorious, and, finally, she has been the editor of a real newspaper, devoted to the interests of Chinese women.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Well as I like America and the ways of Americans, I desired a wife of my own race. I wanted to marry a girl whom my mother would approve. So it happened that five years ago I returned to China. There I was introduced to Mak Chue by Mrs. R. H. Graves, the wife of the American medical missionary in Canton. Mrs. Graves, who, with her husband, is now making a visit to her relatives in Maryland, had known Mak Chue for many years, and knew her to be a bright girl and of a nature that would permit her to enjoy life in the United States.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Mak Chue was then nineteen years old, and to me she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Well, I wanted Mak Chue for my wife, but I would do nothing without the approval of my mother, the good Liang Loo. To her I went, and to my joy found that she approved Mak Chue and was more than willing to accept her as a daughter-in-law. We were married, and there were present when the ceremony was performed my mother and my sisters. Loo Fong and Loo See, and among others Dr. and Mrs. Graves and Mrs. Claudia J. White, who is now living in San Francisco, but who was then a teacher in Canton. My wife went to live with my mother, who was to teach her the traditions of my family. I returned to New York, it being understood that my wife would come to me at the end of five years.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Now she has come to make my home her home, and she is held a prisoner in the detention shed on the Pacific Mail wharf in San Francisco. She has been there a month. But she is a philosopher and she has not yet lost confidence in the goodness of the Western World. We are to live not here in Chinatown, but up where there is more light and air and sunshine. My wife will teach in Chinatown, and, indeed, arrangements have already been made for her to take a class of children who do not understand the English language. But when will she be here? I do not know. She is held a prisoner because I own this restaurant and so must be called a laborer. If I sold tea and nothing more there would be no trouble. However, I have many good friends and I am confident that the red tape will soon be cut and everything will be well. I have appealed to President Roosevelt and I am told that he will help me. Perhaps it will not be necessary to wait for his return to Washington. I hope not.”</div><div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIIfyIj0LZvRVFVMsCDURrpcpQDPoHlNJTNr4OkGFcOx2nOJFAVJvck8_t_JGqYYwBNmfXCou2IdWoBaF7XYPhKQpsoMrTyqHoJ43wqVClpHBFaUg1LqK0GrIrl24t-PTwt86TiO5Oa4lUXCrnQOn_jpIiGHLZITJuLWZJwEQzJJD8ZAIGtLALV8-gwM/s7226/1903_05_25%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Herald%20p5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7226" data-original-width="1073" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIIfyIj0LZvRVFVMsCDURrpcpQDPoHlNJTNr4OkGFcOx2nOJFAVJvck8_t_JGqYYwBNmfXCou2IdWoBaF7XYPhKQpsoMrTyqHoJ43wqVClpHBFaUg1LqK0GrIrl24t-PTwt86TiO5Oa4lUXCrnQOn_jpIiGHLZITJuLWZJwEQzJJD8ZAIGtLALV8-gwM/w96-h640/1903_05_25%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20New%20York%20Herald%20p5.jpg" width="96" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1903-05-25/ed-1/seq-7/" target="_blank">San Francisco Call</a></i>, May 25, 1903</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Loo Lin Talks of Wife’s Woes</div><div>Husband of the Chinese “New Woman” Hopes for the Best.</div><div>Believes Her Imprisonment in San Francisco Will End Soon.</div><div><br /></div><div>New York, May 24.— The Herald will say to-morrow: Loo Lin Ben, leader of the progressive element in New York’s Chinatown, a man of learning and thoroughly Americanized in most of his ways, announced to-night that he had fallen back upon his early philosophy to comfort him in the distress resulting from the treatment his wife is receiving at the hands of United States immigration officials. Mrs. Loo Lin has been held a prisoner in the detention pen in San Francisco because her husband, though a merchant, happens to own an interest in a restaurant. Loo is senior member of the firm of G. Tomtoy & Co., at 3 Mott street, where a general merchandise business is carried on. He is also associated with his brother in a restaurant at 14 Mott street, known as Mon Far Low, which, translated into English, is “The Restaurant of Countless Flowers.” Loo said to-night:</div><div><br /></div><div>My wife is not a woman of the ordinary type known in this country. She is progressive, is well educated, has been a teacher in Canton for several years, her writings have been regarded as meritorious, and, finally, she has been editor of a real newspaper devoted to the interests of Chinese women. She is held a prisoner in the detention shed on the Pacific Mail wharf in San Francisco. She has been there a month. My wife expects to teach in New York and arrangements have already been made for her to take charge of a school for children who do not understand the English language. I have many good friends and I am confident that the “red tape” will soon be cut and everything will be well. The case has been appealed to Washington and I am receiving assistance from men of high standing in New York.</div><div><br /></div><div>The World will say to-morrow that Loo Lin has friends who concluded that as Americans they would not stand by and see what they deemed a piece of stupidity and injustice pass and they determined that Mrs. Loo Lin should come in. The appeal will reach Washington in a few days, and there is no doubt, says the World, that the department will overrule the absurd decision of the New York inspector, who reports Loo Lin to be a “laborer” because he owned a restaurant in addition to his mercantile business.</div><div><br /></div><div>There are several peculiar things about the manner which the case of Mrs. Loo Lin has been handled that will call for action at the proper time, say the friends of Loo Lin.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mrs. Loo Lin, the Chinese “new woman,” who has been detained in the sheds of the Pacific Mall Steamship Company, by instructions of the Chinese Bureau, for more than a month, pending the unraveling of a “red tape” tangle involving her right to land, is quite ill, and has requested the attendance of a physician. She has been enduring in great patience her enforced imprisonment, but her general health has been impaired by the long confinement. Sympathizers in this city are doing as much as possible to provide for her comfort, though handicapped by her cheerless environment. </div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQTPGU_dOBkvLyuyagZ4SDgbfOeOhu67o0YN1doRtucUxmeF6jiwshZ1aLHG0u9Wk8DpcP5RhW6iMfVYIBiaC_Pw5OXkAErk8qV_sTDOmpKYTiHX_Y8OCbkGDXR-T6Zk2uI751WhV8tCHwLgyEm7er8AhuukSD3FvWukrbsLjxNWzWu7QraSuK3Vr3Lns/s3301/1903_05_25%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20San%20Francisco%20Call%20(CA)%20p7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3301" data-original-width="722" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQTPGU_dOBkvLyuyagZ4SDgbfOeOhu67o0YN1doRtucUxmeF6jiwshZ1aLHG0u9Wk8DpcP5RhW6iMfVYIBiaC_Pw5OXkAErk8qV_sTDOmpKYTiHX_Y8OCbkGDXR-T6Zk2uI751WhV8tCHwLgyEm7er8AhuukSD3FvWukrbsLjxNWzWu7QraSuK3Vr3Lns/w89-h400/1903_05_25%20Mon%20Far%20Low%20San%20Francisco%20Call%20(CA)%20p7.jpg" width="89" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>New York <i>Herald</i>, September 15, 1903</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese School Failed to Open</div><div>Kindergarten in Mott Street Missed Its teacher and Operations Were Postponed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mrs. Loo Lin Was Delayed</div><div>Held in San Francisco, the Head of the Institution Had to Provide a Heavy Bond.</div><div><br /></div><div>There was one part of the local school system which did not get into operation yesterday, and that was the kindergarten to be conducted for Chinatown, at No. 11 1/2 Mott street, under the auspices of the New York Presbytery. The reason was the non-arrival from China of the pretty wife of Loo Linn, a well known merchant of that section of the city, who lives at No. 14 Mott street.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mrs. Loo Linn came from China to San Francisco last April with the Rev. Dr. Gray, but was held there under the Chinese exclusion act for forty-two days. Her husband has been in this city for twelve years. He made some money in the laundry business and seven yearn ago went back to China and was married. He returned to the United States the following year, leaving his wife after him in Canton, where she was a teacher in the college attached to the Baptist mission there. Since he has prospered as a merchant.</div><div><br /></div><div>He enlisted the sympathy of the mission authorities here and in San Francisco, and the necessary papers having been forwarded to Washington she was released under a bond of $1.000. furnished by the Canadian Pacific Railroad. She then went to Montreal, where she has been staying since.</div><div><br /></div><div>She is expected to arrive in this city to-day, and will receive a warm reception in Chinatown. She will take charge of the Chinatown kindergarten at once.</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnhspJuELqxB7QEUSdMRCD-q4yDz1rfCNIMWPtWzb1n8c9R0_KnCZ27X_T8Mk9t0vDKt60KRtbPcCoUc2CGZ8O2WKqzSXUV6Af7uJjIDvKD5DhUEslwNu81iIhGFODObnjHgVY7rzSLMhQUWfn-pPMqAL4hhyjn8zq7gNM8fGsnK4yMiDm18Yu-PxV80/s2897/1903_09_15%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Herald%20p7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2897" data-original-width="1042" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnhspJuELqxB7QEUSdMRCD-q4yDz1rfCNIMWPtWzb1n8c9R0_KnCZ27X_T8Mk9t0vDKt60KRtbPcCoUc2CGZ8O2WKqzSXUV6Af7uJjIDvKD5DhUEslwNu81iIhGFODObnjHgVY7rzSLMhQUWfn-pPMqAL4hhyjn8zq7gNM8fGsnK4yMiDm18Yu-PxV80/s320/1903_09_15%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Herald%20p7.jpg" width="115" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1903-09-23/ed-1/seq-4/" target="_blank">New York <i>Sun</i></a>, September 23, 1903</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Kept Apart by Red Tape.</div><div>Mrs. Loo Lin, the Christianized Chinese wife of Loo Lin a restaurant keeper at 14 Mott street, and who has been the subject of much correspondence between tho port authorities and her Christian missionary friends, reached her husband safely last night, exactly five months after leaving the Canton Baptist Academy.</div><div><br /></div><div>All her troubles in getting into the country were because she did not carry with her from China the proper passports. She came with the credentials of a merchant’s wife, and upon her arrival at San Francisco learned that restaurant keepers were not officially recognized as ”merchants.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The Rev. R. H. Graves and his wife, who accompanied her, offered the Government authorities all sorts of identifications and recommendations, but it was impossible to sever the red tape until a new set of passports arrived from China.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mrs. Loo Lin was detained in San Francisco, but the Canadian Pacific Railroad put up a $1,000 bond, under which she was allowed to go on to Montreal to live with missionary friends. Last month passports identifying her as a Christian missionary teacher arrived but it was not until Monday that she went before United States Inspector F. W. Berkshire at Malone, N. Y., to be passed upon.</div><div><br /></div><div>She was permitted to go as soon as it was satisfactorily established that she really intended to do mission work. Miss Helen F. Clark of the New York Foreigners’ Mission Society, who was her sponsor before the authorities, brought her to join her husband. </div><div><br /></div><div>Loo Lin met his wife at the Grand Central Station, accompanied by a party of his Christianized Chinese friends. Husband and wife kissed in true Occidental fashion. Mrs. Loo Lm was dressed in blue clothes of a sober cut, not unlike the Salvation Army uniform. She took a great interest in her husband’s restaurant, and spent her first hour at home in inspecting his kitchen.</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHPMkHA5czKKfZn9BOTOJR8UIdDHC8ul9lDMmrgN5c1qdVzIe96gsPKjSj20J6xzq_7-VMUHjGMoEPU8eYvRN8JUs9rqP5Q6tIeamehQEaAThftNpmYEE2n-MGDFL27GyomU0moejf75LIlGbuvkj_i1O3fF3jySPc8ZrIe6JGjqJVvTTul0y-B8h0bg/s2333/1903_09_23%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Sun%20p4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2333" data-original-width="975" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHPMkHA5czKKfZn9BOTOJR8UIdDHC8ul9lDMmrgN5c1qdVzIe96gsPKjSj20J6xzq_7-VMUHjGMoEPU8eYvRN8JUs9rqP5Q6tIeamehQEaAThftNpmYEE2n-MGDFL27GyomU0moejf75LIlGbuvkj_i1O3fF3jySPc8ZrIe6JGjqJVvTTul0y-B8h0bg/s320/1903_09_23%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Sun%20p4.jpg" width="134" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>New York <i>Tribune</i>, September 23, 1903</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Loo Linn Gets His Wife</div><div>Chinese Woman Arrives in Mott-st. and Is Happy.</div><div>After a separation of five years, Loo Linn, the proprietor of the Man [sic] Far Low restaurant, at No. 14 Mott-st., and his faithful young wife were reunted [sic] last evening at the Grand Central Station. The story is a romance of the Chinese immigration laws. …</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0pbTL6LofNgPDl_muWrfscQnbmm3_U82lAPdrFlHH9GTxRc-YcEjUdZf15FQkImg9T0vPPtk_biMzEH3ilchBTie-zRpQOFZvuChtu8151DKNkEaVb8s7GInGJPwOrpolJQqcuQW7kS5g3bK9RBL5npzewMLwLXkau6ANwtJR-xbFjMeLVxdQEst8ipc/s2667/1903_09_23%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Tribune%20p9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="898" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0pbTL6LofNgPDl_muWrfscQnbmm3_U82lAPdrFlHH9GTxRc-YcEjUdZf15FQkImg9T0vPPtk_biMzEH3ilchBTie-zRpQOFZvuChtu8151DKNkEaVb8s7GInGJPwOrpolJQqcuQW7kS5g3bK9RBL5npzewMLwLXkau6ANwtJR-xbFjMeLVxdQEst8ipc/w135-h400/1903_09_23%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Tribune%20p9.jpg" width="135" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=colr19031001-01.1.8&srpos=2&e=------190-en-20--1--txt-txIN-%2214+mott+street%22---------" target="_blank">Columbia Republican</a></i> (New York), October 1, 1903</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Spoke in Greendale.</div><div>First Chinese Woman That Many Have Seen Around Here.</div><div>The people of Greenport had an unusual treat last Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs Loo Lin, formerly of Canton and now of New York, spoke and sang in the Greendale Reformed church both in English and Chinese. Mr Loo Lin has made his home in this country for several years. He is the prosperous proprietor of a high class Chinese restaurant at 14 Mott Street, New York city. Mrs Loo Lin has been for some time a Bible reader in Canton. She desired to join her husband in this country but such is the stringency of the law excluding Chinese that it is only after months of waiting in Montreal that she has at last been enabled to enter as a Christian worker. She expects to do Christian work and teaching among the Chinese women and children of New York, of whom there are more than a hundred. Mr Loo Lin has the bearing of a Christian gentleman, while his wife, the first Chinese woman that many around here have seen, has the fair face and gentle manner that proclaim the lady. They are at present the guests of Mr and Mrs Seaman Miller of Germantown and New York, and it was through their kindness that the people of Greenport enjoyed and profited by this unusual exercise.</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbC1Ecdr_E_iuH4zPUC9vQCsMrbt4OdZJ5UVegb0h3Hfb7-j0Osi5Lpd2awMJy3iBuisewTtf5E0RxN4vP9L6JUWOKLy64XvrbPwurSvYV6hIrBGHSKH6KyECy3QqE5IGBfJstB8XeP424nKsbHAAaF5gM5C-OgQsFAf4ns1iJVhrtD1LSs9OAWcOuIWc/s2426/1903_10_01%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Columbia%20Republican%20(NY)%20p8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2426" data-original-width="1009" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbC1Ecdr_E_iuH4zPUC9vQCsMrbt4OdZJ5UVegb0h3Hfb7-j0Osi5Lpd2awMJy3iBuisewTtf5E0RxN4vP9L6JUWOKLy64XvrbPwurSvYV6hIrBGHSKH6KyECy3QqE5IGBfJstB8XeP424nKsbHAAaF5gM5C-OgQsFAf4ns1iJVhrtD1LSs9OAWcOuIWc/s320/1903_10_01%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Columbia%20Republican%20(NY)%20p8.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1903-10-11/ed-1/seq-20" target="_blank">New York <i>Sun</i></a>, October 11, 1903</div><div>Comes From China to Teach</div><div>Mrs. Loo Lin’s Mission to Her Countrywomen Here.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwv44eBOy1l9HI-oaMJiDKQCeL1IAfEXzl224isCuoaqXl95XyBBpQys_Xr2OFFIxFdit8rN3iMjbH-2_bBW6LI1hSSTL80w3sKNycM1P4dh6hnrA56nw8cHEIReJ5mWxjN_yWGY7dqx4R4SqQ-k6ZZ0V79nEhbFh3bPZmpt0TM9yo89VGTfAE1WRSAsw/s4890/1903_10_11%20Mrs%20Loo%20Lin%20New%20York%20Sun%20p8%20c7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4890" data-original-width="714" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwv44eBOy1l9HI-oaMJiDKQCeL1IAfEXzl224isCuoaqXl95XyBBpQys_Xr2OFFIxFdit8rN3iMjbH-2_bBW6LI1hSSTL80w3sKNycM1P4dh6hnrA56nw8cHEIReJ5mWxjN_yWGY7dqx4R4SqQ-k6ZZ0V79nEhbFh3bPZmpt0TM9yo89VGTfAE1WRSAsw/w94-h640/1903_10_11%20Mrs%20Loo%20Lin%20New%20York%20Sun%20p8%20c7.jpg" width="94" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=sun19040629-01.1.7&srpos=37&e=-------en-20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-%2214+Mott+street%22--------- " target="_blank">New York <i>Sun</i></a>, June 29, 1904</div><div></div><blockquote><div>New China Domestic.</div><div>Loo Lin, the Father of a Nine Pounder Eligible for the Presidency.</div><div>Four Chinamen were standing in front of Loo Lin’s place at 14 Mott street early yesterday morning. Loo Lin is one of Chinatown’s most prosperous and popular merchants.</div><div><br /></div><div>A little man in homespun turned into Mott street from Chatham Square. The yellow skin of his chubby face was puckered into folds with a smile. He looked velly happy and velly proud.</div><div><br /></div><div>There were nudges and gestures and a wise wagging of head among the four Chinamen in front of 14. They advanced to meet the little man with a smile and to meet the little man with a smile and stopped in front of him in a businesslike way. He stopped also, widened his smile, closed his eyes in a way suggestive of a wink and said something that didn’t sound at all like a description of a newly born Chinese boy. The little man was Loo Lin.</div><div><br /></div><div>Soon afterward the smoke of burning joss sticks floated in thick clouds from the windows of Loo Lin’s place and from the windows of the places of his friends in Mott street. Peacock feathers and other things of many colors suggestive of joy and prosperity appeared one the balconies and a crowd filed into Loo Lin’s restaurant where they jabbered congratulations, took more than a few drinks of white stuff, which looked like gin, but wasn’t, and ate rice. It’s pretty certain that no other little Chinese upon his arrival in this country, ever raised so variegated a fuss in Chinatown as little Loo. It’s pretty certain also that Loo Lin never knew that he had so many friends till yesterday.</div><div><br /></div><div>The blow-out cost him many dollars. The youngster—none pounds—arrived at Loo Lin’s home in Brooklyn last Sunday night, but yesterday was the first time Loo Lin had appeared in Chinatown since the event. The four friends who stood in front of his place representing other Chinamen with appetites, had been on the watch over since the report of the new arrival reached Mott street.</div><div><br /></div><div>The mother has been in this country for about two years. When she came over she was held for several months by the immigration authorities in San Francisco and Canada and Loo Lin had much more trouble in getting her free from them than he had had in winning her affection. </div></blockquote><div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWqc4Os323w3AX9Gur1yiRTqqZuUewYbY5tfP8Ic9DkK-rFHpEA8NPL0HnIxL5tAhFJx7zoXjpVGlXCxENUZlUJaSfDooBLSQLFf25SF2h1cdQOnS91UnqaubjXm3MSAazccKZ2o3r1MT6ImzDuVkJntumWlCrW6FjU2aa71OUMH8ZUVNZYksCPv5z7Y/s2769/1904_06_29%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Sun%20p7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2769" data-original-width="1052" height="400" 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York Chinatown, Part 3: 1905–1915)</div>Alex Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-38657599605188698282024-03-06T08:00:00.010-05:002024-03-13T08:10:53.088-04:00Graphics: Dining at 14 Mott Street in New York Chinatown, Part 1: 1885–1898<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKUXgvs0rDwx5u12eMo6KAWk3lAIa6JGD1_FVSGuVUTWXqiwTAz2QP0qfWid_K7sv_n00mWkqBKtxZ88gwxHuAl8gCSK8S1kfebdS40_xAo2d0yzbEG6PcdRFlvg16ek9xVv0oGXU8YqwN2DdSTuD7FmRGU1NTz1ZkRd2sUkuXAgrTcXJ9RyyPIcrWuoc/s2939/1884_10_11%20Mott%20Street%20Moon%20Festival%20Frank%20Leslie%E2%80%99s%20Illustrated%20Newspaper%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2939" data-original-width="2001" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKUXgvs0rDwx5u12eMo6KAWk3lAIa6JGD1_FVSGuVUTWXqiwTAz2QP0qfWid_K7sv_n00mWkqBKtxZ88gwxHuAl8gCSK8S1kfebdS40_xAo2d0yzbEG6PcdRFlvg16ek9xVv0oGXU8YqwN2DdSTuD7FmRGU1NTz1ZkRd2sUkuXAgrTcXJ9RyyPIcrWuoc/w438-h640/1884_10_11%20Mott%20Street%20Moon%20Festival%20Frank%20Leslie%E2%80%99s%20Illustrated%20Newspaper%2001.jpg" width="438" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_leslies-weekly_1884-10-11_59_1516/mode/2up" target="_blank">Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper</a></i>, </div><div style="text-align: center;">October 11, 1884. The entrance to 14 Mott Street </div><div style="text-align: center;">is seen next to the raised left hand holding an object.</div><div style="text-align: center;">16 Mott Street is left; its stairs parallel with street.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2024/01/graphics-wong-chin-foo-and-new-york.html" target="_blank">Wong Chin Foo</a> wrote two articles for the <i>Chicago Daily News</i>. The restaurant at 14 Mott Street was described as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmonico%27s" target="_blank">Delmonico</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>January 10, 1885, page 3</div><div></div><blockquote><div>The Chinese in America.</div><div>Special to the Chicago Daily News.</div><div>Chinatown, New York City, Jan. 7.—Nothing gives the average Mongolian more pleasure than the fact that his civilization and that of the western barbarians are daily approaching nearer and nearer. And we are doing it, and doing it in a way that would bring a blush to the cheek of that mythic creature of the American imagination, the brass monkey. Ten years ago we Chinese were moral and pious (more or less). To-day we have all the modern improvements and accomplishments. We have with considerable trouble erected temples to Bacchus (or Silenus), Venus, Morpheus, and Fortunatus. I am uncertain, being a so-called almond-eyed heathen myself, as to whether my mythologic references are correct. What I mean is that in Chinatown to-day we have bar-rooms and beer saloons, beds of asphodel, opium-joints, and gambling houses ad infinitum. What is more, their fame has spread about, and the lounger and man-about-town daily drop in to interview or investigate the variegated attractions. On Monday I met two well-known lawyers and a state senator who were vainly endeavoring to study the Chinese elephant. They were endeavoring to learn something from an ignorant laundryman. They understood no Chinese and he no English. When I arrived upon the scene they had concluded that he was a lunatic, and he that they were drunken hoodlums. A moment’s explanation settled affairs, and we went off and dined at the Chinese Delmonico’s, 14 Mott street. Our bill of fare, though admirable, was misunderstood, and consequently not quite so much enjoyed as it might and should have been. What it really was, and what my friends in their hearts believed it was, is well shown in the following tables:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>What they thought it was.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What it really was.</div><div>1. Hashed kitten.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hashed beef, orange, orange-</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>peel, ginger, and curry</div><div><br /></div><div>2. Stewed puppy.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ragout of chicken, celery, </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>bamboo shoots, and young </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>onion</div><div><br /></div><div>3. Stewed worms.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hashed macaroni with egg, </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>cochineal, beef, and chicken</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>liver</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div>4. Bisque of rats.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Chicken soup.</div><div><br /></div><div>5. Mouse pie.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pate of quail, from which the</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>head, feet, and most of the </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>bones had been removed.</div><div><br /></div><div>6. Spitz-dog en tortue.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dragon-dish sauce with rice, </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>black beans, and shalotts.</div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div>The Chinese names for these delicacies (I give them because perhaps some of your readers may desire to try the same experiment) are: 1, Yo-Yo-an; 2, Gai-bien; 3, Chow-mien; 4, Gai-Gan; 5, Chow-an-Tszun; 6, Yung-Goi.</div></blockquote><blockquote><div>I commend this bill of fare in the highest terms. It represents the culmination of the Chinese cuisine; just as the bisque of crabs, the Chateaubriand, the filet de sole, and the pate de foie gras are emblematic of French gastronomic art and science. And next to my own race the French are the best cooks of the universe. Restaurants are well enough, so far as they go. We have also Chinese barbers, tailors, pawn-brokers, grocers, druggists, doctors, lawyers, musicians, officials and journalists (I say lawyers and journalists in the plural), for thus far I am the only one in the trades referred to, and am consequently sui genesis). We have, also—and I regret to say it—a Chinese cut-throat and thief. But we made short work of him. The moment we learned of his depredations we offered rewards for his arrest, rewards for his conviction, and some of us rewards for his death. Those who are responsible for the last regard him as a disgrace to our race, and desire to have him and his name wiped out. And, though it may be opposed to your American notions, they’ll do it, too.</div><div><br /></div><div>Besides the rewards, detectives were employed and committees appointed to hunt the culprit down. How well the work was done you already know by the telegraphic reports. The crime was committed Friday, and no clew was visible. Monday the criminal was delivered to the police, and, furthermore, all the necessary evidence was put into the hands of the district attorney, so that in a public letter the next day he thanked us for our public spirit and enterprise. Can any American community show a similar example? Yet I feel sorry for the poor devil. He was a man of heroic mold, and in the Jeannette and Greely relief expeditions to the arctic circle displayed a courage and devotion fitting the grandest cause. His downfall and ruin are attributable to only one thing—the tiger. He played and lost all. He borrowed, begged, and pawned—and lost. Then, crazy for food, crazy for the necessary cash with which to gamble again, he robbed and murdered—and lost again. In the greatest and richest city of the world this uneducated, unintelligent lion of a man was allowed to gamble day and night under the very eyes of the police, and then waste his life, his substance, and his future. </div><div><br /></div><div>We are much amused at the tone of the hoodlum California press. It lauds the anti-Chinese law to the skies, and day by day declares that the immigration has ceased. The truth is the very opposite. The Chinaman who can afford it sails straight to San Francisco and pays the United States inspector $50 and is put through. The poorer or more economical coolie goes to Vancouver’s island by sailing vessel, and skips across to the soil of Uncle Sam. Last night, at the club-rooms 16 Mott street, a newly arrived immigre said: “New law d— nonsense; only job to give money to inspector. Fat man with big mustache wanted $500. I d— fool and give him $250 and come along in all light.”</div><div><br /></div><div>I am glad to see, however, that a better feeling is growing up here in the east. When people read the police reports and find that only one Chinaman is arrested in 50,000, and then for a trifling offense; when the county democracy appoints one of my race a New York policeman; when a Chinese interpreter is attached to the courts, a Chinese editor to the great dailies, and a Chinese contributor to the leading weeklies and monthlies, you can safely bet that the anti-Chinese craze is dying out and that we flowery-kingdomites are going to be somebody and have some say amid this vast mixture of Germans, Irish, negroes, French, Italians, English, Swedes, and Yankees which make up the American people. New York has almost learned the lesson that ere long will be taught to the United States. A Chinaman who has brains, education, and honesty will get along just as well as the citizen of any other land. You can’t keep him out and you can’t keep him down. Make friends with him, show him that he is an integral part of the nation, and some unborn Ah Sin will occupy the chair soon to be held by our friend Mr. Cleveland. </div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg4WKUg1imdbNiyMexIA5QlZO_62I87JSSw5iFMG8yMh33xd9MCbzHlOTErdWz82orRTG-nVwq2sdLKjN7TXAAdCR0gG_KXCFhCrOps-MlzQqiAYuC13R2ykY7At57I6YDHz7WD3DhB268lsIAw1Iv5iJWc3pziqTBzKTKCdNZr3T_OorMdIciawcyzE0/s4435/1885_01_10%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Chicago%20Daily%20News%20(IL)%20p3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4435" data-original-width="645" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg4WKUg1imdbNiyMexIA5QlZO_62I87JSSw5iFMG8yMh33xd9MCbzHlOTErdWz82orRTG-nVwq2sdLKjN7TXAAdCR0gG_KXCFhCrOps-MlzQqiAYuC13R2ykY7At57I6YDHz7WD3DhB268lsIAw1Iv5iJWc3pziqTBzKTKCdNZr3T_OorMdIciawcyzE0/w94-h640/1885_01_10%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Chicago%20Daily%20News%20(IL)%20p3.jpg" width="94" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>June 29, 1885, page 2</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese Cooks and Cooking.</div><div>Special to the Chicago Daily News.</div><div>New York, June 22.—In the last two years New York fashionable society has cultivated a new craze—Christianizing and educating John Chinaman. Every church patronized by the creme de la creme has its Chinese class, its Chinese teachers, its Chinese night-school, Like most crazes, it accomplishes but little in the way sought. It has done much, however, in turning attention to Chinatown and in making known many things that heretofore were celestial mysteries. Among these is the Mongolian restaurant. It is safe to say that in 1880 not more than a hundred New Yorkers had ever dined in oriental style. In 1885 the number is far up among the thousands. The average American when he first approaches the Chinese table, does so in fear and trembling. Vague presentiments of ragouts of rats, mayonnaises of mice and similar luxuries float through his mind. Nine times out of ten he leaves table with the conviction that he has learned something, and that the almond-eyed sons of the queue are the best cooks in the world. So he goes again, and with him brings two or three inquisitive or adventurous friends.</div><div><br /></div><div>There are six Chinese restaurants proper in the Mongolian settlement. Each is famous for some dish or style of cooking. The Delmonico of the number is Yu-ung-Fang-Lau, at 14 Mott street. Here repair Canton importers and Hong Kong merchants, Mongolian visitors from ’Frisco, flush gamblers, and wealthy laundrymen. All of the restaurants are run on the same plan. A plain wood floor, swept and scrubbed hourly till it fairly shines; simple pine or walnut tables, small stools, crimson banners and mottoes on the walls, and a lavish display of curious porcelain vessels in racks and stands characterize one and all. </div><div><br /></div><div>You have never dined, reader, under such auspices. With two friends you enter Yu-ung’s and perch upon a stool near a large square table. The next moment the attendant has put down in front of you a tea-pot filled with fresh, boiling tea, a tea-cup one-third the size of those used by Americans, two ebony chop-sticks, a porcelain spoon, a tiny liqueur-bowl, and a saucer filled with a chocolate fluid called se-yu. This is a hybrid between salt and dilute Worcestershire sauce. From its name comes the familiar British term soy. The first course is cold roast chicken, served with pickled perfumed turnip. The flesh is tender, snow-white and free from sauce. It is cut into small pieces, but these are arranged so as to preserve the outline of the fowl. You seize a piece with your chop-sticks, dip in the sauce, and then eat it in solemn silence. The next course is fresh fish, steamed, boiled, or fried whole and covered with a dark and very aromatic sauce. With it is served a bowl heaped to overflowing with rice. It is cooked as only the Chinese can—each grain soft and tender but distinct from its fellows. Next appears a bowl of chicken-soup, on whose surface float a few thin slices of some green vegetables. Then follow roast duck with pickled carrot, chow-chop-sue (ragout of chicken liver, lean pork, bamboo-tip, celery, bean-shoots, and onion), dried fish, steamed chopped pork, macaroni and chicken, and dainty dumplings filled with spiced hashed meats. </div><div><br /></div><div>With the foods are served tiny pitchers of liquors. One is a brown rice arrack, the second a date brandy, and the third an orange gin. The nearest approaches to these in the American bar-room are Batavia arrack, pear brandy, and green curacoa. </div><div><br /></div><div>All the dishes are well cooked and served, and all are a novelty to the most blase gourmet. The made dishes especially are new and strange.</div><div><br /></div><div>The next surprise is the bill. The same or an equivalent dinner at an average restaurant would cost a party of three seasons at least $5.50; in a firs-class hotel, $8.50. At Yu Ung’s, however, the cost is but $2.48. Of course the Mongolian has luxuries, and pays for them “Allee same Melican man.” A duck half boiled and then stuffed with almonds, chestnuts, raisins, watermelon seeds, imported spices, and roasted is worth $2. A suckling pig similarly treated brings $5 to $7. Bird’s-nest soup at 50 cents a portion, shark’s fins fricasseed at 40, dragon-fish ragout at 35, and sea-worm at 75 are other instances in point. It is not uncommon for a Chinese dinner to cost $5 a plate, exclusive of wine, and on state occasions $40 a head has been the price paid by the giver of the feast.</div><div><br /></div><div>At these great dinners a feature of the cooking is the element of surprise. A dish of apparently hard-boiled eggs is placed before you. You open one and it is filled with a purplish custard, flavored with violets, a second has a brown filling, colored and flavored with chocolate, and a third a rose-tinted and perfumed cream. A second dish of eggs will contain assorted ices and ice-creams. Again, the attendant deposits before you what seems a well-boiled trout. Your chopstick removes the fish head and skin at one touch and discloses a long dumpling filled with delicious chopped meat or game. Another charming dish consists apparently of small, well-fried potatoes. Each one, however, is a thin shell of flue, thoroughly cooked dough, containing vegetables, poultry, fish, game, or meat.</div><div><br /></div><div>While dining you have a good opportunity to study the domestic habits of the Mongolian race. However crowded the restaurant may be, quiet reigns, broken only by the orders of the steward and waiters to the cooks and the “thank you” of the guests. In English the latter practice would become monotonous. In Chinese there are seven expressions for our one, and a happy variety therefore exists. They eat leisurely, and almost invariably leave a portion of their food untouched. Each, as he beings his meal, pours a tablespoonful of tea into his cup, and then, by a dexterous swing of the wrist, throws the liquid in a semi-circle on the floor. The custom, or ceremony, seems to have had a religious meaning in remote antiquity, but to-day is kept up for luck, or perhaps from mere habit.</div><div><br /></div><div>Another feature is the simplicity of their diet. At four tables the meal being eaten consists of tea, a bowl of rice, a small fish, a piece of chicken, and a saucer of sliced perfumed pork. In ordering a dish they order by value only. It is “10 cents fish,” “15 cents chicken,” and never “plate of roast beef,”“piece of pie,” etc., as with Americans. But few indulge in stimulants. Those who do combine into pools of two, three, or four, and them order “18 cents arrack.” The whole amount is hardly more than the straight whisky of a Chicago rounder.</div><div><br /></div><div>The kitchen is not only visible to the guest, but is in reality a portion of the dining-hall. All the utensils and paraphernalia are before your eyes; even the meats, vegetables, and the cooks themselves are practically on exhibition. To those who have believed that the celestial cooked in some primitive way a visit to and inspection of his culinary arrangements is a revelation.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Chinese kitchen greatly resembles the American. A sink with an unlimited supply of fresh water, a stove, and a table, are articles common to both. Besides these it has, what every civilized kitchen should have, a butcher’s chopping-block, a pastry-table, and a condiment-case. The pastry-table differs from the ordinary kind in having a hard-wood top of extra thickness. The rolling-pins that accompany it are three in number, of hard wood, three inches in diameter, and about five feet long. The condiment-case is a flat-box about three by two feet, and usually contains the following: salt, black, white, and red pepper, mustard, dried lemon and orange peel, ginger, both plain and pickled, saffron, soy, vinegar, lemon-juice, garlic onion, cassia buds, tamarind extract, sweet oil, walnut catchup, tarragon, savory, thyme, mint, and dried celery. These make up the condiments used in ordinary cooking. On great occasions other and more expensive articles are employed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Culinary utensils have one peculiarity. Almost all are globular and made in one piece. The Chinese cook dislikes the angles, corners, and edges of American pans and pots, as these involve much more trouble in cleaning and are liable to hold dirt or drying organic matter beyond the reach of a dish-cloth of a dish-brush. Most pans and pots are segments of a globe two or three feet in diameter. Kitchen spoons, strainers, cake-turners, stirrers, and scoops are made with the same curvature, so that the cook has no difficulty in managing any article he may be cooking.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fires are made of both coal and wood, though the latter is universally preferred. They are built generally inside, but at times outside, the stove. In roasting, smoking, or drying any food the article is suspended by a wire in the center of the fire-pit, and the fire is built on a pile of bricks just outside the ash-pit door. The draught carries the flame and heated air through the fire-pit to the chimney, and so accomplishes the work to be done. Where slow roasting would dry the juices of the food the article is first suspended over a very hot, sharp fire until the skin is browned, and is then treated in the way just described.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chinese cooks vary from their American colleagues in other ways. The keeping of raw meats is not tolerated in a first-class celestial kitchen, ice-box or no ice-box. A chicken or duck is carefully kept alive inn a little pen until an hour before dinner, and is then killed. Pork, beef, and mutton are cooked as soon as delivered by the butcher. The reason is that in warm climates raw meats turn bad and decay in a few hours, while, when cooked, especially roasted, they would keep as many days. The empyreumatic oils of the smoke in roasting act as a preservative, and will keep duck and pork sweet and wholesome for more than a fortnight. In fact, prominent Chinese exports are smoked duck and pork, which are sent and sold all over the world. </div><div><br /></div><div>Nearly all Chinese kitchen utensils are provided with a hook, ring, and eye in order to hang up. Over the stoves is an iron bar or heavy wire to which spoon-stirrer and cake-turner are alike attached. Even knives and cleavers, forks and prongs, are treated in this way. In a good Chinese kitchen every article is required to be spotless, ready for use, and visible to the guest. </div><div><br /></div><div>Business begins about 7 o’clock and continues till midnight. Despite the small prices charged, it pays fairly from an American and very well from a Chinese standpoint. The proprietor of a good restaurant seldom clears less than $1,000 a year. In five years he can return to his native village and there be a social mugwump for the rest of his life. Many of them become Americanized and endeavor to live accordingly. Not long since Yu Ung said to a party of New Yorkers dining there:</div><div><br /></div><div>“Melican man buy gal when he mally?”</div><div><br /></div><div>“Yes, some do,” answered one of the party.</div><div><br /></div><div>“All velly good!” said Yu Ung, with a grin of the most intense kind permitted by the Mongolian physiognomy. “Me quite lich. Got six thousand dollies in the bank; got a velly good business. Me velly good man. Me no dlink, no smoke, no gamble, no fight, no get mad. Me velly lonely, and want velly good, nice, little, pletty wife. You sabe heap gals. You tell them allee about me, and you say if she mally me give gal allee my money, be velly good husband, take good care of baby, and lettee wife do allee she please allee same Melican man.” It is reported that Yu Fung’s desires are soon to be gratified.</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv2ebrSWDw4Zrxop4OT7Oq2uNahaBwaAb5Eo3RF0Ew_MH6sRuBbJ0RlKAGmHg_owWchBc_yd7CKB3bPhc1m7j7r0xRt208WL1ah6USFYPlZOtuvhf9vUIR4s14XylA3GvSKe0eLNT_gbaHljuaz7clKbqPq_q7GLkmBSbkf9hfakaEqJ5eVpK-GGuB_Vc/s6465/1885_06_29%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Chicago%20Daily%20News%20(IL)%20p2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6465" data-original-width="1273" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv2ebrSWDw4Zrxop4OT7Oq2uNahaBwaAb5Eo3RF0Ew_MH6sRuBbJ0RlKAGmHg_owWchBc_yd7CKB3bPhc1m7j7r0xRt208WL1ah6USFYPlZOtuvhf9vUIR4s14XylA3GvSKe0eLNT_gbaHljuaz7clKbqPq_q7GLkmBSbkf9hfakaEqJ5eVpK-GGuB_Vc/w126-h640/1885_06_29%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Chicago%20Daily%20News%20(IL)%20p2.jpg" width="126" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The <i>Wayne County Herald</i> (Honesdale, Pennsylvania), August 20, 1885, reprinted an article from the New York <i>Sun</i>.</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chop Scou.</div><div>Almost every day in the early morning a crowd of Chinamen can be seen buying fresh pork at the stalls in Washington market. The purchases range from five to fifty pounds in weight, and are selected with great care. Yesterday, among the Celestial buyers, the reporter ran across Fang Low, who is cook and steward for a large club in Chinatown. In a capacious basket, half full of green vegetables, Fang had twenty pounds of “fresh pig.”</div><div><br /></div><div>“Me takee him home. Velly well, me smoke him,” said the bland Oriental. “You come ’long and see him.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The reporter accompanied him to his kitchen, which is on the second floor of No. 14 Mott street. Here Fang went to work industriously. He washed the pork thoroughly, and with a sharp knife removed all the bone, cartilage, and skin. A second and more energetic washing ensued, after which the pork was cut into strips about fourteen inches long, four wide, and a half inch thick. The strips were laid in a pan, and over them was poured a brown fluid resembling Worcestershire sauce, in appearance and flavor. After a few minutes soaking in this aromatic bath, each strip was fastened to an iron rod by a wire hook. The rod was then laid across the open top of a brick oven, so that the strips hung suspended in what with Americans would be the fire pit. The top was then closely covered with pine boards. Outside of the oven on a pile of bricks built continuous with the ash door, Fang then made a very hot fire with small pieces of dry hickory wood. The draught, regulated by pieces of sheet iron on either side of the fire, carried the flame and smoke into the ash pit and thence through the fire pit into the chimney. In the bottom of the ash pit was a pan which received the melted fat from the strips of pork.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Makee fire velly hot, pig cook quick and allee fat lun out,” said Fang. “Makee little fire, pig cook velly slow—two, thlee hour, and fat no lun out.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The reporter tasted two pieces. One which had been quickly cooked was crisp, and in flavor half-way beteen [sic] well roasted chicken and a thoroughly cooked tenderloin. The other, which had been cooked three hours, was almost like first-class English breakfast bacon. The flavor of the sauce and of the hickory smoke, however, made both different from anything he had ever tasted.</div></blockquote><blockquote><div>“Chinaman call him chop scou,” remarked the cook, “and like him evely time. Like him heap much. Him velly cheap—little plate, 5 cent; big plate, 10 cent.”—N.Y., Sun.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSRYDt5DvOT63NMixcb5WKxeinm-Zh2n-IkqsMmwjqrqvLeIf4GWw8IHd7STWm8ejuuhVp23xnWRzbxhGDo-08r9RqvGg7FgvMWclj7LEV_ivGs6j3yt19YwUk-f-Wzgwd3OBzVSI21V-dWWjCGUdjxGsfgoia08_0YXAvT4odTO5dJyg2gFucavywRPg/s800/1885_08_20%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Wayne%20County%20Herald%20(Honesdale%20PA)%20p1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="219" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSRYDt5DvOT63NMixcb5WKxeinm-Zh2n-IkqsMmwjqrqvLeIf4GWw8IHd7STWm8ejuuhVp23xnWRzbxhGDo-08r9RqvGg7FgvMWclj7LEV_ivGs6j3yt19YwUk-f-Wzgwd3OBzVSI21V-dWWjCGUdjxGsfgoia08_0YXAvT4odTO5dJyg2gFucavywRPg/w176-h640/1885_08_20%2014%20Mott%20Street%20Wayne%20County%20Herald%20(Honesdale%20PA)%20p1.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The <i>Daily Sentinel</i> (Rome, New York), September 12, 1885, published the following.</div><div></div><blockquote><div>The Second Chinese Baby in New York.</div><div>Last Friday Lo Chow, the junior member of the Chinese importing house of No. 5 Mott street became the father of a boy—the second Simon-pure Chinese child born in this city. Lo Chow ’s wife boasts that her feet are only three inches long. Yesterday a party was held to name the child. The head of the infant was shaved in Mongolian style and the outline traced of the future cue. Friends and relatives made many presents to the child, including Jade bracelets, chain and lockets, girdle, anklets and necklaces. After the reception a feast was spead [sic] at the Chinese Delmonico’s (No. 14 Mott street,) where the consumption of shark’s fins, bamboo shoots and bird’s nest soup lasted until a late hour. The baby was named Foh Sheou, meaning endless prosperity.—N. Y. Tribune.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKLg6Q3pPnq4Z-8XwCYF9q7Ys8cvfVMH3Vqiani1IK5N851oysIn7v40JHGv1DFOpZ7kxEN-8i8MILQewyfj-_BjQDEXG96pxpeXHXa_0n5zogFm15FHVZ_TMzE3weyV_HjCAhD_Q10CZOddIRWvYiMoNDy-i2KBc2ynfOxXIupKjX7KRLOSKhU1NcCg/s1771/1885_09_12%20Daily%20Sentinel%20(Rome%20NY)%20p1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1771" data-original-width="1743" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKLg6Q3pPnq4Z-8XwCYF9q7Ys8cvfVMH3Vqiani1IK5N851oysIn7v40JHGv1DFOpZ7kxEN-8i8MILQewyfj-_BjQDEXG96pxpeXHXa_0n5zogFm15FHVZ_TMzE3weyV_HjCAhD_Q10CZOddIRWvYiMoNDy-i2KBc2ynfOxXIupKjX7KRLOSKhU1NcCg/w197-h200/1885_09_12%20Daily%20Sentinel%20(Rome%20NY)%20p1.jpg" width="197" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The <a href="https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=toj18851016-01.1.3&srpos=15&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-%2214+Mott+street%22---------" target="_blank">New York <i>Sun</i></a>, May 30, 1886, reported the visit by Minister Chang Yen Moon. </div><div><blockquote>... A banquet was to have been given to the Minister at 14 Mott street last evening, but it was postponed. As the Minister will return to Washington in a day or two, the banquet may not take place during his visit. ...</blockquote></div><div><a href="http://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2024/01/graphics-wong-chin-foo-and-new-york.html" target="_blank">Wong Chin Foo</a> noted the changes in Chinatown for the <i>New York World</i>, September 6, 1886. It’s not clear if the restaurant at 14 Mott Street had a new owner and name. </div><div><blockquote>... Then 14 Mott street, the Chinese Delmonico, was refitted throughout with imported furniture and other delicious, and subsequently its bill of fare was changed and its high rates reduced. The owners sent out flaming colored posters. ...</blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2f-kdf9GYEYYjLMbVV3Y9HyX1olFFL0CA3syzwdggwRRTV6lU7KUuTcl3ZSFzp5QvcSEKzWr6h3EybKSV7My4rc0QtuPAJUgyq4Gm-EOOXdZq4COxTT-e4No7hsrCnHuSNW3Y0DNuPY6D7L2bEr0gofjXQnse5l1uKQbnCYvkuHED9BPWjLtUuqorvWE/s1707/1886_09_06%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20World%20p2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1707" data-original-width="991" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2f-kdf9GYEYYjLMbVV3Y9HyX1olFFL0CA3syzwdggwRRTV6lU7KUuTcl3ZSFzp5QvcSEKzWr6h3EybKSV7My4rc0QtuPAJUgyq4Gm-EOOXdZq4COxTT-e4No7hsrCnHuSNW3Y0DNuPY6D7L2bEr0gofjXQnse5l1uKQbnCYvkuHED9BPWjLtUuqorvWE/s320/1886_09_06%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20World%20p2.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>Wong Chin Foo was the host of a dinner reported by the <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1886-11-23/ed-1/seq-1/" target="_blank">New York <i>Sun</i></a>, November 23, 1886. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>A Wrong Side Up Dinner.</div><div>Commissioner Andrews Tackles a Bill of Fare from the Other Side of the World.</div><div>Excise Commissioner William S. Andrews, who has for years been ambitious to eat a regulation Chinese dinner, ate one last night and thinks that he will be able to get out to-day. Wong Chin Foo was his host. Dressed in an American derby and overcoat and other American things, Wong led the way to the Chinese chop house at 14 Mott street. The Commissioner was in evening dress. He brought along two New York friends to help him, and when they had mastered the chopsticks they drove right through fourteen courses of dinner without quailing. It took nearly three hours, and this was a bill of the performance:</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Tea served in costly china cups.</div><div>2. Cake.</div><div>3. Lichee nuts.</div><div>4. Sweatmeats,</div><div>5. Roast duck.</div><div>6. Roast chicken.</div><div>7. Boned ducks feet fried with mushrooms, and bamboo shoots.</div><div>8. Chicken bones fried in lard until the bone was soft as the flesh, and dressed with Chinese sweet pickle, ginger and celery.</div><div>9. American pike fried, with mushrooms and water lily potato.</div><div>10. Cuttlefish, with Chinese sweet turnips and saifun beans.</div><div>11. Tchowmien macaroni, flour stewed with chicken, celery and mushrooms.</div><div>12. Chinese sausages, composition uncertain.</div><div>13. Citron soup with shrimps.</div><div>14. Lotus seed and apricot seed soup.</div><div><br /></div><div>Commissioner Andrews washed it all down with three kinds of Chinese wine. One was the nomaidayo pear wine, the second a white wine distilled from rice, and the third Chinese gin made of apricot seed.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9lToM8rJ52QgxRkrbR89d7YYxBRSsP9O8bnIQ3ypdQke__M0PIC3VieqrNG_3aW-DHExMLTa07Kemuca3aWyZEgST2cZ7r27_PI8vqgVotCHoQv0K3zHIUWP1mBl1SfluGy3fSFZXq08EzkA8hIp6WVwsvrs5QoMbIdA28lAs0UTva0fmFqubkL1fZME/s2106/1886_11_23%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Sun%20p1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2106" data-original-width="1469" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9lToM8rJ52QgxRkrbR89d7YYxBRSsP9O8bnIQ3ypdQke__M0PIC3VieqrNG_3aW-DHExMLTa07Kemuca3aWyZEgST2cZ7r27_PI8vqgVotCHoQv0K3zHIUWP1mBl1SfluGy3fSFZXq08EzkA8hIp6WVwsvrs5QoMbIdA28lAs0UTva0fmFqubkL1fZME/s320/1886_11_23%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Sun%20p1.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>An article published in the <i>New York Herald</i>, February 26, 1889. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Dong Fong’s Soft Snap. </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>“Ya-che-fu-haa-a, Yang se Kiang hua so y ba-a.” </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>These mellifluous words reached my ears while I was standing in the corridor of the County Court House yesterday. The Celestial who had addressed the remark to a fellow countryman was directing his footsteps toward the equity branch of the Court of Common pleas and I followed, as I translated his remark to mean “There will be some fun at the trial in there.”</div><div><br />Judge Van Hoesen looked down from the bench upon a score of clean shaven Chinese mugs, which belonged to the distinguished men interested in the suit of Dong Fong against Dong Ing, Dong Ah Chew, Ong Ping, Ah Mow, Leon Coon, Chung Yack, Willie Hung, Yuck Yon and other members of the firm of Hong Wah Hing Kee, doing a general business in teas, medicines, swallow nests, glacé rat tails and other delicacies, at No. 14 Mott street. Mr. Fong, who is a big boned gentleman of the brunette type, wearing a faded coal, with voluminous sleeves, and a china bracelet, was at one time a member of the firm, and he enjoyed the duties assigned to him so much that when he received a vigorous kick that sent him flying out of the business his feelings were deeply hurt and he retained the law firm of Booraem, Hamilton & Beckett to sue for an accounting. It all came about in this wise. Mr. Fong borrowed $200 from Ho Que to invest in the firm. When he was asked to repay the loan he stood Mr. Que off. Mr. Que induced Yuck Yan to give him the $200 and had Mr. Fong’s name scratched off the firm’s books and Mr. Yon’s put in its place.</div><div><br />Fong said on the witness stand that he had originally borrowed $260, and had kept $60 in his own pocket to spend. Ah Mow, who seemed to boss the business, started him to work at a soft snap. The firm ran a game for treats in the basement, and Fong was given $30 a day for about five weeks to play with and to treat customers. One day he advanced some money to a friend and Ah Mow kicked. The result was that Fong drew out of the game. Fong referred to Mr. Mow yesterday as the biggest skin that ever was. The trial will be continued to-day.</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ2mWvKxT-Fij5XLK5DA2aqDGdXfxTCzeJ0NVT4xGYaKkxbWLHYDpjQ6KZ_LTv2_Tz7lkpA-M-DLMLFv6XfwpZjGf3WYz43aTElc9xdZX6ZxUDAzJgSg0Cj0a4riFXF3aKJ9QKBwdmInMbYPTr-Ve3-ywvUniuncNMbFKgWecCkXakXnWiCBZjnKf7X9Q/s1859/1889_02_26%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Herald%20p4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1859" data-original-width="1054" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ2mWvKxT-Fij5XLK5DA2aqDGdXfxTCzeJ0NVT4xGYaKkxbWLHYDpjQ6KZ_LTv2_Tz7lkpA-M-DLMLFv6XfwpZjGf3WYz43aTElc9xdZX6ZxUDAzJgSg0Cj0a4riFXF3aKJ9QKBwdmInMbYPTr-Ve3-ywvUniuncNMbFKgWecCkXakXnWiCBZjnKf7X9Q/w226-h400/1889_02_26%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Herald%20p4.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Me Hong Low, also spelled Mee Hong Low, was the name of restaurants in New York City, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kfICAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA920&lpg=PA920&dq=%22Me+Hong+Low%22&source=bl&ots=nKpSF0l3tG&sig=ACfU3U3co01hsy7bwmp1ucBfEjD407DybA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpiqKZpvaDAxXxrokEHaqRCEgQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=%22Me%20Hong%20Low%22&f=false" target="_blank">Pawtucket, Rhode Island</a> and <a href="https://archive.org/search?query=%22Mee+Hong+Low%22&sin=TXT" target="_blank">San Francisco, California</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjaRChgiIb6grvjiCA1TysX6FXm2edcOG0A_AM06B_OvIDebqc_KYIpQZ0DLy7h513LVG9cECSCSlnTBZuwZ1bSdblk97zaJ5q0_MpjYDkVy4_08-Vfl1VF4H_avLHZ-R72FUopSXOPbkiQSoK5cX2R1_Y0rDrU1hiCE5TIEAzt43WJHpXofgCII1wSn4/s800/1890_11_22%20New%20York%20Chinatown%20Wedding%20Harper's%20Weekly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="577" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjaRChgiIb6grvjiCA1TysX6FXm2edcOG0A_AM06B_OvIDebqc_KYIpQZ0DLy7h513LVG9cECSCSlnTBZuwZ1bSdblk97zaJ5q0_MpjYDkVy4_08-Vfl1VF4H_avLHZ-R72FUopSXOPbkiQSoK5cX2R1_Y0rDrU1hiCE5TIEAzt43WJHpXofgCII1wSn4/w464-h640/1890_11_22%20New%20York%20Chinatown%20Wedding%20Harper's%20Weekly.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Harper’s Weekly</i>, November 22, 1890. 14 Mott Street, </div><div style="text-align: center;">a four-story building, is the fourth building from the left.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bcaCvUqPn7rj5WfVhO11JprU0dbri8LB0vcw8n5BkSiFycJdvByp9ijQTDE5y-2j5yh8ycYS-JBkcxBkYT4PZkLkYxHU56WJpGRsQJIBCIHarImKBd622sf2sloDpxM9xxVWvgkPuSM4ADPteEgO2vG95LUmxSZ1vRwHbJ7u8HhH5Pj_doNrlLMv18o/s800/1910_03_31%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="525" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bcaCvUqPn7rj5WfVhO11JprU0dbri8LB0vcw8n5BkSiFycJdvByp9ijQTDE5y-2j5yh8ycYS-JBkcxBkYT4PZkLkYxHU56WJpGRsQJIBCIHarImKBd622sf2sloDpxM9xxVWvgkPuSM4ADPteEgO2vG95LUmxSZ1vRwHbJ7u8HhH5Pj_doNrlLMv18o/w264-h400/1910_03_31%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%2001.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">14 Mott Street on the far right;</div><div style="text-align: center;">date unknown</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The New York City Me Hong Low was located at 14 Mott Street and, I believe, was in business in the early 1890s. <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=emAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA83&dq=%22Mee+Hong+Low%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJn4GMzvSDAxW6mYkEHbuODfcQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Mee%20Hong%20Low%22&f=false" target="_blank">Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Sining Fund of the City of New York 1895, 1896 and 1897</a></i> listed several establishments that paid fines “for Violations of the Sanitary Code or Health Laws”. On December 19, 1894, “Mee Hong Low” paid five dollars.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>The address of Me Hong Low was mentioned, near the bottom of the articles, in the New York <i>Sun</i>, November 10, 1895, and <i>East-Hampton Star</i> (New York), December 13, 1895.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6ltsOxvPD-HN6vLLpUW6aUg8wdbn0y_MUOY5Fhyphenhyphenb84GOGw7e2mlH4sxxdtZzhfjtypANdqEAkO9RDeT9XHDcl5gR4pOo94faExIsEl0kDIm1ZQdqx862WHFQRQKTGR4YkHleRLs0TVtdUBrXk9rh14PDtGIOm2AZF55zv5SRaMz52CQRY6Pv7nVGQNw/s4078/1895_11_10%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Sun%20p4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4078" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6ltsOxvPD-HN6vLLpUW6aUg8wdbn0y_MUOY5Fhyphenhyphenb84GOGw7e2mlH4sxxdtZzhfjtypANdqEAkO9RDeT9XHDcl5gR4pOo94faExIsEl0kDIm1ZQdqx862WHFQRQKTGR4YkHleRLs0TVtdUBrXk9rh14PDtGIOm2AZF55zv5SRaMz52CQRY6Pv7nVGQNw/w150-h640/1895_11_10%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Sun%20p4.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">New York <i>Sun</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwviSlFQCdXxUHCJf0i7yyu6bkA-jK4sAbmx1fLH7SowAPxcfa5rsyWqa6CIhdRD9afeCdQQcx71aHCsL5WPhnUgcnYjI0j3QayYADsNoi-7g1Oed7SY1FE3XR6rUv9F_C0q7RqYRr7IhLHuoxxYkbG5qmvEon2-SzxJXEWrqf7VtP6oW5ykyWb7G2GBo/s3567/1895_12_13%2014%20Mott%20Street%20East-Hampton%20Star%20(NY)%20p6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3567" data-original-width="918" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwviSlFQCdXxUHCJf0i7yyu6bkA-jK4sAbmx1fLH7SowAPxcfa5rsyWqa6CIhdRD9afeCdQQcx71aHCsL5WPhnUgcnYjI0j3QayYADsNoi-7g1Oed7SY1FE3XR6rUv9F_C0q7RqYRr7IhLHuoxxYkbG5qmvEon2-SzxJXEWrqf7VtP6oW5ykyWb7G2GBo/w164-h640/1895_12_13%2014%20Mott%20Street%20East-Hampton%20Star%20(NY)%20p6.jpg" width="164" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>East-Hampton Star</i></div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sHgAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA104&dq=%22Night+in+Chinatown%22+1896%C2%A0Century&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiy_oLRiaaEAxUqkokEHW-fBJQQ6AF6BAgFEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Night%20in%20Chinatown%22&f=false" target="_blank">The Century Magazine</a></i>, November 1896, published an illustration, by F. H. Lungren, of Mott Street.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0VklD6owjKfaCbEcbvRJXl5dL4ZvGY1nmYejIpnrL9YxXxpcXtrv639UNn1qvdvacSkmzNCNd_G3ogafax7qSUzDK_9bjd27JECTWFOiSta11hiYKPAFE0MI_EEsTOnEnMi83iVeNsZL4QRSKZtyHSes6OaiULwydbrA3vMYScfh2-_JDvvoisK_xPfo/s2903/1896_11%2014-24%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Century.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2903" data-original-width="2014" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0VklD6owjKfaCbEcbvRJXl5dL4ZvGY1nmYejIpnrL9YxXxpcXtrv639UNn1qvdvacSkmzNCNd_G3ogafax7qSUzDK_9bjd27JECTWFOiSta11hiYKPAFE0MI_EEsTOnEnMi83iVeNsZL4QRSKZtyHSes6OaiULwydbrA3vMYScfh2-_JDvvoisK_xPfo/w278-h400/1896_11%2014-24%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Century.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">14 Mott Street restaurant on the right;</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hong Yuen Restaurant at 16 Mott Street.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Scan from the author’s collection</div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>New York Journal</i>, January 21, 1897, reported the following dinner.</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Bet and Ate Birds’ Nests</div><div>Southern Pacific Officials Dined in Chinatown by Chinese Six Companies’ Officials</div><div><br /></div><div>Members of the Six Companies gave a dinner last night to several officials of the Southern Pacific Railway Company at the establishment of Me Hong Low, Sing Kee & Co., No. 14 Mott street. </div><div><br /></div><div>The dinner was in payment of a wager to which the principals were Lee B. Lok, of the firm of Lung Quong On, and Mr. John D. Newman. Lee Lok is a nephew of Lee Choup, the high priest of the joss house in Chinatown. Choup is a cousin of Li Hung Chang, and is a big official in the Six Companies. </div><div><br /></div><div>The menu included birds’ nests, sharks’ fins and Celestial delicacies—in all thirty-seven courses.</div><div><br /></div><div>After dinner the party were shown through the temple and the Chinese theatre. </div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BwXllUn36g9Od4eFkx5qbgaMOsoQMTMqctMKmo9dnRDfhWGPnEf3_s7fZ7gpdjCJQgAi8G3aip7_hCo0Rfi5WPJU1o32lhDQuRPIILzGpzGoh3w1cOqy9jgF3t85InbHdmBJD8JRdGNyXZgDlMHfkW-HNCMWXFiGhUw7DSu2yFcf5cgMYPZVgyPDzas/s1279/1897_01_21%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20New%20York%20Journal%20p6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1279" data-original-width="1142" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BwXllUn36g9Od4eFkx5qbgaMOsoQMTMqctMKmo9dnRDfhWGPnEf3_s7fZ7gpdjCJQgAi8G3aip7_hCo0Rfi5WPJU1o32lhDQuRPIILzGpzGoh3w1cOqy9jgF3t85InbHdmBJD8JRdGNyXZgDlMHfkW-HNCMWXFiGhUw7DSu2yFcf5cgMYPZVgyPDzas/w179-h200/1897_01_21%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20New%20York%20Journal%20p6.jpg" width="179" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The <i>New York Herald</i>, August 15, 1897, wrote about Colonel Robert M. Floyd’s dinner for Professor Charles G. D. Roberts at Me Hong Low. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Gave His Friends “Si Wo Opp.”</div><div>Colonel Robert Mitchell Floyd, a retired merchant whose home is on Jersey City Heights, gave a Chinese dinner yesterday in honor of Professor Charles G. D. Roberts, a Canadian writer and poet, who recently came to this city to reside.</div><div><br /></div><div>Colonel Floyd entertained his guests, twelve in number, at No. 14 Mott street. They sat down at two o’clock, and devoted the next three hours to Chinese delicacies. This is what they ate: </div><div><br /></div><div>[Chinese characters in four columns] </div><div>A Key to the Chart</div><div><br /></div><div>For the benefit of readers who may not care to read this bill of fare it may be stated that Colonel Floyd’s dinner consisted to twelve courses. The first included almonds, watermelon seeds, lichee nuts, peanuts, fresh lichee, pineapple, wheel fruit, pears. Canton ginger, Cumquat oranges, melon rind and chow-chow.The guests came under the wire after this round, in seventeen minutes. They next tried some “bok ne quay chow,” with “no omi zoo.” This course consisted of fowl in the nest and white rice wine. It was followed with “yong yee chee,” which tasted better under the English name of shark fin rolls. The “si wo opp,” which was served next, was declared by all present to be the best Chinese bird in the bush they had had since the visit of Li Hung Chang to this country.</div><div><br /></div><div>The next four courses consisted of “neyung dun goo,” with “mow gung zoo,” “guy yic,” “yen wa gong” and “suey be gop,” with “moy guen sco.” While all this was under way Colonel Floyd’s guests were partaking of mushrooms and chopped fish, with wine of the roots; stuffed chicken wings, bird’s nest soup and boiled pigeon, with rose wine.</div><div><br /></div><div>On the Last Four Laps.</div><div><br /></div><div>Four courses remained to come after four o'clock. These consisted of “abalone yung bow ye,“ ”gow gook chop suey,” “linsin gong gow atzer” and “sue sin char.” All of which, being expressed in ordinary English, means that Colonel Floyd and his guests finished their dinner with boiled abalones, stuffed with pork; beef chop suey, bean sprouts, water chestnuts and boiled rice, white nut broth, sweet cakes and water lily tea.</div><div><br /></div><div>Colonel Floyd gave a similar dinner in April last to forty friends. His guests yesterday, besides Professor Roberts, were John J. Rooney, Francis Bellamy, Duffield Osborne, Robert Wentworth Floyd William C. Roberts, Joseph Bayan, Whidden Graham, Stephen B. Stanton, John Find, Patrick O’Mara and Vincent S. Cook.</div><div><br /></div><div>The dinner was served on a small, round table, about which the guests seated themselves on high stools. The table was of a sire usually used to accommodate four persons.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4UoLbmnUscpLiscKRnfBrxonqg2r6nrA-6gCd80dQ_lZArzqZF3mXPvH3nAFfchAZHiBV5e63dhJxYzXA9nwaRGsmdIrp4mU3taW11vUFonHhSXuas9RJNZYnC1c3MR0uueyWjjEZcKt_bfSJZ0OsCLjeubEEUYC0cthfoMBJrzJK1cKT1OMk3uST8jo/s3410/1897_08_15%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Herald%20p7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3410" data-original-width="755" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4UoLbmnUscpLiscKRnfBrxonqg2r6nrA-6gCd80dQ_lZArzqZF3mXPvH3nAFfchAZHiBV5e63dhJxYzXA9nwaRGsmdIrp4mU3taW11vUFonHhSXuas9RJNZYnC1c3MR0uueyWjjEZcKt_bfSJZ0OsCLjeubEEUYC0cthfoMBJrzJK1cKT1OMk3uST8jo/w144-h640/1897_08_15%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Herald%20p7.jpg" width="144" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>New York Herald</i></div><div><br /></div><div><i>The New York Times</i> reported the same dinner and its story was reprinted, to some degree, or mentioned in the <i>Watertown Daily Times</i> (New York), August 21, 1897; <i><a href="https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=ben18970825-01&e=------189-en-20--1--txt-txIN-%2214+mott+street%22---------" target="_blank">Buffalo Evening News</a></i> (New York), August 25, 1897, “A Stuffed Novelist”; and <i><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/63325684/" target="_blank">Vancouver Daily World</a></i> (British Columbia, Canada), September 1, 1897, “Roberts, the Poet and Novelist, Entertained at a Chinese Dinner”. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>A Dinner in Chinatown</div><div>The Peculiar Pungency of Rose Wine Described</div><div><br /></div><div>Shark Fins, Nut Broth, Bird’s Nest Soup, Water Lily Tea, and Other Oriental Dainties Offered for Occidental Appreciation.</div><div><br /></div><div>New York Times:</div><div>A Chinese dinner of 12 courses was served yesterday afternoon in honor of Prof. Charles G. D. Roberts, the Canadian novelist and post, who is one of the founders of the Canadian club of this city. Col. Robert Mitchell Floyd was the host.</div><div><br /></div><div>One of the events of the occasion was rose wine, which came with the eighth course. It looks like, spring water, is served in delicate clear glass receptacles about the size and shape of large rose leaves and has the lifting power of a jackscrew and the explosive force of dynamite. As it touches the palate all feeling departs, and the world vanishes for an instant. The drinker then becomes conscious of his throat and knows that it has become a spot of scorching flame. His lungs go out of business and his breath ceases. As the heal runs like electric flashes down his windpipe and through bis body and limbs, he knows that he is yet on the earth and living, and his entire being is permeated with a faint, evanescent suggestion of the breath of a living rose with the dew on it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then he draws in the good, cool air wipes his eyes, clears the perspiration from his brow, and says, “Thank you, yes,” as his neighbor proffers another libation of the beverage from the curved stem, not much thicker than a knitting needle, of a small and slender porcelain tea pot. The drinking of it is a progress through oblivion and fire for the moment of half conscious existence as the exhalation of roses.</div><div><br /></div><div>The banquet began with nuts, fruits, and preserves, and ended with white nut broth, with sweet cakes and water nut broth, with sweet cakes and water lily tea. It was a new experience for most of the guests and was enjoyed. The scene was the restaurant of Me Hong Low on the second story of 14 Mott street. Between the courses everybody rose from the big round table and walked about or sat on the veranda and looked down upon the queer life in the narrow and crooked thoroughfares of Chinatown. At first they looked up at the windows of the opposite tenements where some rich Chinamen live, and their American wives and children were visible, clad in garments of many colors and fabrics and oriental fashion, but the heads of those establishments quickly drove their families out of sight and mutual curiosity was balked.</div><div><br /></div><div>Col. Floyd makes a fad of Chinese cookery. He claims it is really the perfection of the gastronomic art, and is eager as a missionary in inculcating his opinions among his friends and introducing the remarkable things he likes into their systems. He had with him yesterday, besides Prof. Roberts, John Jerome Dooney, Vincent S. Cooke, Floyd, William Cannon Roberts, Joseph Bayan, Widden Graham, Stephen B. Stanton, John Find, an Americanized Chinese merchant and Patrick O’Mara, the botanical expert. They talked of Keats and ate boiled abalones stuffed with pork—“abalone yung bow ye”—and soften the contrast with rose wine; discussed Ibsen and high art over bean sprouts and water chestnuts with boiled rice, the same being “gow gook chop-suey,” and made of themselves perambulating warehouses of such assorted materials as wheel fruit, shark fins, Canton ginger, bird’s nest soup, chow-chow, and melon rind, broiled pigeon, stuffed chicken wings, mushroom, and chopped fish.</div><div><br /></div><div>The bill of fare was printed in English with the Chinese names in English characters on an opposite page, and in Chinese characters for the guidance of the caterer, in the middle. It included all the best and most esteemed dainties of a high class Chinese menu, was prepared by a chef who would wear a blue ribbon if he was a Frenchman, and was served by a corps of Chinese waiters. Mr. Find explained the composition of the various dishes, and Mr. O’Mara strove conscientiously to identify and classify the vegetable portions. Chopsticks were used exclusively.</div><div><br /></div><div>The consumption of the feast began at 2 o’clock and lasted until the big gongs were booming and the huge paper lanterns were lighted in the Joes house upstairs, and the sidewalks below were crowded with chattering Chinaman, resting after their day’s work; the clang of the cymbals in the Doyers street theatre was mingling with the shrill notes of Moody and Sankey hymns from the Salvation Army girls in the mission house. Then the company dispersed reluctantly, and the Chinamen along the sidewalks exchanged comments and criticisms, probably of a derisive and deprecatory character upon the invaders of their realm. Mr. Hong Long was a proud man and bowed to the floor in recognition of the merits of Melican men who could appreciate Chinese cookery and carry away in excellent style much white rice wine, wine of the roots, rose wine, and water lily tea. He took to himself the analect of Mencius printed on the menu—“The superior man has three delights * * * That he can get from the whole empire the most talented individuals and nourish them.”</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYucw-_-8VpKP-r07RRJfXI8Nu1Tsz5cYwLBqAUOQJ68rzp6Ech7j6H-jvwEl4P8FxULRcz35E8Hh06Mbj8HSaUZ19CANA0GYTzp4RN_XsTfAvVOkIVfSjhJ7z7PekNM2flVsZjiGMOHaKyOmQ6v21P2fbtJtSz7btGVcabVuizDv8z-NHP-2B2cXpntE/s4750/1897_08_21%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20Watertown%20Daily%20Times%20(NY)%20p11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4750" data-original-width="751" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYucw-_-8VpKP-r07RRJfXI8Nu1Tsz5cYwLBqAUOQJ68rzp6Ech7j6H-jvwEl4P8FxULRcz35E8Hh06Mbj8HSaUZ19CANA0GYTzp4RN_XsTfAvVOkIVfSjhJ7z7PekNM2flVsZjiGMOHaKyOmQ6v21P2fbtJtSz7btGVcabVuizDv8z-NHP-2B2cXpntE/w104-h640/1897_08_21%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20Watertown%20Daily%20Times%20(NY)%20p11.jpg" width="104" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Watertown Daily Times</i></div><div><br /></div><div>In <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924023507217/page/n65/mode/2up" target="_blank">New York’s Chinatown: An Historical Presentation of Its People and Places</a></i> (1898), Louis Joseph Beck said </div><div><blockquote>There are seven restaurants in Chinatown which rank as first-class places, and four others of the second or lower class, some of which would more properly be called mere eating houses. Those of the first-class are the following: Hon Heong Lau, 11 Mott Street; King Heong Lau, 16 Mott Street; Me Heong Lau, 14 Mott Street; Way Heong Lau, 20 Mott Street; Gui Ye Quan, 34 Pell Street; Mon Li Won, 24 Pell Street, and Kum Sun, 16 Pell Street. The menu and prices charged in these several places are substantially the same. They each serve a variety of dishes classified according to the price charged as per the following. ...</blockquote></div><div>According to the New York <i>World</i>, January 25, 1898, the Year of the Dog occurred the same day as a solar eclipse. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Ominous New Year in Chinatown.</div><div>At Its Beginning the Sun Was Eclipsed—No Man Knows What May Happen.</div><div><br /></div><div>Gloom Over Mott Street.</div><div>Baked Meats Were Offered in the Joss-House, but Who Can Tell What Foreign Devils Will Do?</div><div><br /></div><div>Some Men Would Celebrate.</div><div>The Wiser Sought to Propitiate the Gods, Doubtless Angry and After Vengeance.</div><div><br /></div><div>The shadow of the dragon still lies on Chinatown. </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>The New Year has come and the face of the sun was hidden.</div><div><br /></div><div>An evil portent lies in the eclipse, and the German fleet before Kiaochau is no more an ill-omen than the death here of the celebrated Pell street goat.</div><div><br /></div><div>So gloom rests on Chinatown. ...</div><div><br /></div><div>... An occasional burst of sound from behind some closed door told that a braver spirit still made effort to celebrate the day. But it was short-lived. In the Kwon [sic] Wah Tai, at No. 14 Mott street, a reed-pipe blatted and shrilled and wailed at odd moments, and a listless crowd stood about wondering at the man who so tempted the anger of the gods. </div><div><br /></div><div>In the Me Hong Low restaurant trade was at a standstill, and the feast dishes turned cold untasted. Along the curb an occasional throng watched with uninterested faces for what might happen, and even in the temple the tom-toms rested at evening. </div><div><br /></div><div>For the new year had come and gone in Chinatown, and gloom hung in the streets.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWW8UcIgdUA5D13odA4SkhPAluNSobSZwN2CrCJjL2HG9lJnb1Tm3tWzPGH7jL1SIxCI24Pl2zZjPbWi8dicJOkcbmMR5EqutfW7NpuMH1x049qSCrvOJ_lpImo7tKxqLuOy3dup-OOrY55aGiatwDiWsmsYU-N82sXtLqp0j022H0cV4XqKGQL2dcQok/s6346/1898_01_25%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20New%20York%20World%20p15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6346" data-original-width="2446" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWW8UcIgdUA5D13odA4SkhPAluNSobSZwN2CrCJjL2HG9lJnb1Tm3tWzPGH7jL1SIxCI24Pl2zZjPbWi8dicJOkcbmMR5EqutfW7NpuMH1x049qSCrvOJ_lpImo7tKxqLuOy3dup-OOrY55aGiatwDiWsmsYU-N82sXtLqp0j022H0cV4XqKGQL2dcQok/w246-h640/1898_01_25%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20New%20York%20World%20p15.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The entrance of 16 Mott Street</div><div><br /></div><div>The shooting of a Me Hong Low cook was reported in these newspapers.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>New York <i>Evening Journal</i>, March 28, 1898</div></div><div><div><blockquote>Got Shot for a Bad Chop Soy. </blockquote><blockquote><div>Four Cherry Street Toughs Create panic in a Chinatown Restaurant.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chef Quong Won Dying.</div><div>Shot Down for Protesting in Me Hong Low & Co.’s Mott Street Place.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wants to Be Buried in China.</div><div><br /></div><div>Because four visitors from Cherry street objected to the “chop suey” he had prepared for them, Quong Won, chef in the Chinese restaurant of Me Hong Low & Co., No. 14 Mott street, was fatally shot in the breast this morning, and for two hours Chinatown was in an uproar. </div><div><br /></div><div>Four young men entered the restaurant at 8 o’clock and called for something to eat. Charley Low, one of the proprietors, took their orders.</div><div><br /></div><div>One of the customers tasted the “chop suey” and then threw the dish to the floor, saying uncomplimentary things about Chinese cookery in Cherry street dialect.</div><div><br /></div><div>From behind the kitchen screen Quong Won heard the discussion and came out to protest.</div><div><br /></div><div>Diners Fled in Terror.</div><div><br /></div><div>“My chop soy velly good,” said Quong Won, and then the Cherry street heathen fell upon him and proprietor Low. </div><div><br /></div><div>Several of the Chinese waiters went to the assistance of their fellows, and in the fight that followed tables and chairs were overturned and the other late diners fled in terror. </div><div><br /></div><div>Suddenly one of the visitors drew a revolver, and a second later Quong Won dropped to the floor with a groan.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then the four assailants escaped. </div><div><br /></div><div>Policeman Peter Carter arrived after the fight was over and found only hysterical Chinese and the prostate Quong Won, who faintly expressed the wish that he be interred beside the bones of his ancestors, near Hong Kong.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thinks Quong Will Die.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Dr. Rodman, of the Hudson Street Hospital, who came with the ambulance, said Quong would probably die, but Proprietor Low refused to have him removed. </div><div><br /></div><div>Detectives Finn and Bennett, of the Elizabeth street station, are looking for the dying chef’s assailants. ...</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic32DnYMcmm_3ZuD9YUShTDUWATZqIWegopAq6EUZdkXRgDm9hCMPiQb105C3WknlmgUnVebxty44RTdFmT4vC7AMSfP-QN51WxlbOEwtiicL4jdkOcmzc1J2RjbV_ZAUU8m2-uEMFm-7o0hdtB__tvd09OHtmHFh2kS7htna6XhzFEhQAd-Q2jvqG-w0/s2827/1898_03_28%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20New%20York%20Evening%20Journal%20p6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2827" data-original-width="717" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic32DnYMcmm_3ZuD9YUShTDUWATZqIWegopAq6EUZdkXRgDm9hCMPiQb105C3WknlmgUnVebxty44RTdFmT4vC7AMSfP-QN51WxlbOEwtiicL4jdkOcmzc1J2RjbV_ZAUU8m2-uEMFm-7o0hdtB__tvd09OHtmHFh2kS7htna6XhzFEhQAd-Q2jvqG-w0/w101-h400/1898_03_28%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20New%20York%20Evening%20Journal%20p6.jpg" width="101" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p>New York <i>Evening Post</i>, March 28, 1898</p><p></p><blockquote><p>A Chinaman Shot During a Quarrel.</p><div>Quong Won, employed as cook in a Chinese restaurant at No. 14 Mott Street, was shot in his left side at half-past two o’clock this morning in the restaurant by an unknown white man, who escaped. Four men refused to pay their bill, a quarrel ensued, and in it Quong Won was shot. The four men then ran away. The wound was not serious.</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCPiwWIHmT6usR_MG9ZaWNQ0u04qHI7LNEOJXiHOAx-4zzlIANNgZdCpyA88e-_JAzK-Nb4Sflrojge2kSQD7mKBnlyVvNAyjZCGHzQar_Na30n5Zc64pq03LeoxEtWgoULGdt8AiSo6441yCbvMJ5uWw9B_vEDJ2gxj4H6O7eZGPfB364JzURiC4dn3g/s800/1898_03_28%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Evening%20Post%20p3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="800" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCPiwWIHmT6usR_MG9ZaWNQ0u04qHI7LNEOJXiHOAx-4zzlIANNgZdCpyA88e-_JAzK-Nb4Sflrojge2kSQD7mKBnlyVvNAyjZCGHzQar_Na30n5Zc64pq03LeoxEtWgoULGdt8AiSo6441yCbvMJ5uWw9B_vEDJ2gxj4H6O7eZGPfB364JzURiC4dn3g/w200-h116/1898_03_28%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Evening%20Post%20p3.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><i>New York Press</i>, March 29, 1898</div><div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Bill Paid with Bullet</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">White Men Relished Chinese Food, But Not the Price It Cost.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“If you don’t like the grub, shoot the cook.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This was once a favorite motto in Wild Western restaurants, but it was disastrous to cooks—of the cook didn’t get his gun out first. Although no such motto was displayed in the Chinese restaurant at No. 14 Mott street yesterday, four white men, names unknown, put the rule into effect and Now Quong Wong, the chef of the establishment, carried a bullet in his left side.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The men entered the restaurant and after dining on chop suey, lichee nuts and other delicacies, refused to pay the bill. In the fight which followed one of the white men drew a revolver and fired it at Quong Wong. He is not seriously hurt. The four men escaped.</div></blockquote></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTQzMNxYloVZhEmBgjPJUASWFblzrG6_ULqYDnpqNJEaDVrFeVyNfxsVXQxdSwGYegIvi1G-8MJixvRjFrmzEJrcvBZG5UljhXsPfvaZn7RFHOLepccECr8NqEHsklrIADQAY8yc3rOI6ipR8aeo-GFdrGgqvj050kzutOdrRgy_AO2DHNY1XX8JNXL00/s1231/1898_03_29%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Press%20p7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="1231" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTQzMNxYloVZhEmBgjPJUASWFblzrG6_ULqYDnpqNJEaDVrFeVyNfxsVXQxdSwGYegIvi1G-8MJixvRjFrmzEJrcvBZG5UljhXsPfvaZn7RFHOLepccECr8NqEHsklrIADQAY8yc3rOI6ipR8aeo-GFdrGgqvj050kzutOdrRgy_AO2DHNY1XX8JNXL00/w200-h199/1898_03_29%2014%20Mott%20Street%20New%20York%20Press%20p7.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=sun18980329-01.1.9&srpos=10&e=------189-en-20--1--txt-txIN-%2214+mott+street%22---------" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">New York <i>Sun</i></a><span style="text-align: center;">, March 29, 1898</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote><div>Chinese Cook Shot</div><div>Badly Wounded by a Customer Who Didn’t Like His Cooking.</div><div>Quong Wong, one of the best cooks in Chinatown, was shot early yesterday morning in No Hung Low’s [sic] restaurant at 14 Mott street. Four Chinamen entered the restaurant a little before 3 o’clock and called for several Chinese dishes, which Wong essayed to cook. When the food was put before them they insisted that it was not properly cooked, and refused to eat it.</div><div><br /></div><div>The proprietor called upon his cook to defend his cooking. An argument resulted between Quong Wong and the four Chinamen, which ended in one of them drawing a revolver and shooting Wong in the left breast. </div><div><br /></div><div>When Policeman Carter arrived the customers had made their escape. Carter called an ambulance for Wong, who appeared to be badly hurt. When it arrived a number of his countrymen barricaded the door and refused to allow him to be taken away. The wounded man was finally left to the ministrations of native physicians. </div></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Ln8tmyP2JQBxoEXOSBICT-hIQg5ZYGEIVSEakocP2YoVx8Y4nhjPjSdNdHLDRc5FxITqZEAdZmh7eSK-Cg4cKGZjqmfFELoLxFPIvmGy_IpEanDpyemLFF83meQHN-afJcVKw-TQK6TGqS1T_IO_6z6n_0_G-7tyJHFu6-8dvFrU9EKKd70X1JyKBFE/s800/1898_03_29%20No%20Hung%20Low%20New%20York%20Sun%20p9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="744" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Ln8tmyP2JQBxoEXOSBICT-hIQg5ZYGEIVSEakocP2YoVx8Y4nhjPjSdNdHLDRc5FxITqZEAdZmh7eSK-Cg4cKGZjqmfFELoLxFPIvmGy_IpEanDpyemLFF83meQHN-afJcVKw-TQK6TGqS1T_IO_6z6n_0_G-7tyJHFu6-8dvFrU9EKKd70X1JyKBFE/w187-h200/1898_03_29%20No%20Hung%20Low%20New%20York%20Sun%20p9.jpg" width="187" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div>The stabbing of a Me Hong Low waiter was reported in the following newspapers.</div><div><br /></div><div>New York <i>Evening Telegram</i>, November 9, 1898</div><div><blockquote><div>Chinaman Found Dying with Stab</div><div>Shue White, with a Terrible Wound in the Neck, Taken to Hudson Street Hospital.</div><div><br /></div><div>His Assailant Not Known</div><div>Every Celestial Had Vanished from the Scene, a Restaurant, When Authorities Arrived.</div><div><br /></div><div>Delay in Telling Police</div><div>Hospital Failed to Give Notice of the Mott Street Mystery.</div><div><br /></div><div>With a terrible stab wound in his neck, evidently made with a large knife, Chue White, a Chinese waiter, fifty-six years old, was found in a dying condition early this morning in a restaurant at No. 12 Mott street. Because of his condition the man was unable to tell who stabbed him, and the police, so far, have been unable to find any clew that will aid them in unraveling the mystery. They have been greatly handicapped in their efforts to find White’s assailant, because the finding of the man was not reported from the Hudson Street Hospital for several hours.</div><div><br /></div><div>White was employed in the restaurant where he was attacked. Me Hong Low was his employer. He lived next door, at No. 14 Mott street, and had been at work all the evening, serving chop suey, shark’s fins and other delicacies to Chinamen of the district, but shortly after midnight, when an ambulance was summoned not a person was in the place. </div><div><br /></div><div>Dr. Bailey, the ambulance surgeon, found the Chinaman lying on the floor with a pool of blood that had flowed from the wound in his neck near him. The man was so exhausted from loss of blood that he could not speak. The physician saw the patient’s condition was critical and hastened with him to the hospital without making any inquiry about the manner in which he had been hurt.</div><div><br /></div><div>When Sergeant McNamara, of the Eldridge street station, learned of the case it was nearly three o’clock, and even then the word came from a boy and not from the hospital. The boy said a Chinaman had been stabbed in a fight at No. 12 Mott street, but could not give any particulars. Detective Brennan hastened to the restaurant where he found everything as quiet as if the place had never been inhabited.</div><div><br /></div><div>He woke up Me Hong Low and several other Chinamen, but all, with the best English they could command, declared they knew nothing about any fight. Half a dozen detectives were put on the case at daylight, but, owing to the inborn reticence of every Chinaman in Mott street, they have been unable to learn anything. White’s condition was reported, as critical at the hospital this morning.</div></blockquote><div></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_a_r91gNezwwszPjDfLK-ZcmPFUJU0zzcInfpY3pSLR-QtKL1Udbwo0bxJz1dgeejI7_hQEXdYzS4xO-h2QCDlv8wT3xGHMGCprGEEckbfVEch80nMBORmkKWCZn0cja4iqfsMGnDypLspnOL6Mjkh1ybHEnbI9f2aXG9mTMqS2t9Zly8YP_f_ACdLHY/s800/1898_11_09%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20New%20York%20Evening%20Telegram%20p8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="516" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_a_r91gNezwwszPjDfLK-ZcmPFUJU0zzcInfpY3pSLR-QtKL1Udbwo0bxJz1dgeejI7_hQEXdYzS4xO-h2QCDlv8wT3xGHMGCprGEEckbfVEch80nMBORmkKWCZn0cja4iqfsMGnDypLspnOL6Mjkh1ybHEnbI9f2aXG9mTMqS2t9Zly8YP_f_ACdLHY/w258-h400/1898_11_09%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20New%20York%20Evening%20Telegram%20p8.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><div><p><i>New York Press</i>, November 10, 1898</p><blockquote><div>Chu Wy’s Sad Soul Hungers for Cash</div><div>Will Ask Coin in Advance in Chinatown Restaurant</div><div><br /></div><div>New Rule Made Because Customers with Election “Jags” Got Too Gay with Him.</div><div><br /></div><div>After Chu Wy recovers from his injuries and leaves the Hudson Street Hospital to go back to his duties as head waiter in Me, Hong, Low & Co.’s restaurant, at No. 14 Mott street, he will put a new rule into effect.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chu Wy is not able to prepare “copy” for a sign painter at present, but he will have that rule printed in big black letters and hung all about the dining room. A narrow strip of red paper, a yard long, covered with Chinese hieroglyphics, will hang side by side with an English translation done by Chinatown’s best sign painter.</div><div><br /></div><div>This rule, done into plain English, will read that Americans with large appetites, who desire to dine on Chinese delicacies, must “put up” a cash deposit in advance or give some other “guarantee of good faith.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Not Real Gents, at All.</div><div><br /></div><div>The mean, low-down way in which two Van Wyck rooters imposed upon Chu Wy on election night, and than slashed his lemon-colored countenance, is the cause of all this diplomatic ruling.</div><div><br /></div><div>Calm and peaceful as a deaf-mute convention, was Chu Wy’s restaurant on Tuesday night. Whether Roosevelt or Van Wyck was elected, it disturbed not the sedate Celestials, and the shouts and cheers of enthusiastic rooters outside bad no effect upon them.</div><div><br /></div><div>Shortly before midnight two husky-looking persons entered the restaurant. On their breasts were pinned Democratic buttons as big as saucers, from which hung streamers. Chu Wy salaamed his best salaam, and smiled his sweetest smile.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bowery whisky and whisky of other parts of town had made the visitors reckless; so they didn’t stop to read the English-printed bill of fare. Somebody told them that Van Wyck was elected, so they did not care for expense.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Bring us all you got in the house!” said, the man with the big mustache.</div><div><br /></div><div>Many Delicacies.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chu Wy salaamed again, shuffled to the kitchen and told the cooks to stir themselves. Roast duck, roast pig, birds’ nest soup, chow chop suey, pickled sharks’ fins, dried fish and other delicacies that delight the Chinese epicure were set before the hungry representatives of the Democracy.</div><div><br /></div><div>While they gorged themselves Chu Wy retired to a corner and figured up the bill. It certainly was not small. The meal eaten, Chu Wy brought forth tiny, glasses of samshu, the fiery liquor distilled from rice. </div><div><br /></div><div>Over this the customers smacked their lips They called for more. The glasses were filled several times, and Chu Wy was about to go for the tea when his customers jumped up from the table and bolted toward the door.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chu Wy ran after them, shouting in pidgin English and Chinese. Half a dozen pig-tailed heads were shoved out from doors, and soon there was more excitement in Mott street than it had seen for many a day. </div><div><br /></div><div>Got Him by the Queue.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chu Wy seized one of the fugitives, demanding money for the meal. The man grabbed Chu by the queue and stabbed him In the face with a penknife.</div><div><br /></div><div>All Chu Wy’s courage vanished then and he sat down on the curbstone to reflect. His brethren gathered around him, and while they chattered the Melican men escaped.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the Hudson Street Hospital, Chu, with the gash in his cheek sewed up, is lying on a cot trying to think out a proper sign.</div></blockquote><div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhitQE59Yb9gM1LOTcYy2H-quV_t1dpVGX8AZLoLXYxWWGEJf9DCyxgienNxAN5WAV0jV0Vhh1NUKaFghZYQdDQkeVA2Mgw85m2IYhu3PsRnqU6le-NHzXAhaf5bYRGxR432jt9FFMZfaUkU6WxyliilSqi5FZ2QvPV4hWbq6_4lFvF-NvNY3jYkZNhvvM/s800/1898_11_10%20Me,%20Hong,%20Low%20New%20York%20Press%20p4a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="166" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhitQE59Yb9gM1LOTcYy2H-quV_t1dpVGX8AZLoLXYxWWGEJf9DCyxgienNxAN5WAV0jV0Vhh1NUKaFghZYQdDQkeVA2Mgw85m2IYhu3PsRnqU6le-NHzXAhaf5bYRGxR432jt9FFMZfaUkU6WxyliilSqi5FZ2QvPV4hWbq6_4lFvF-NvNY3jYkZNhvvM/w132-h640/1898_11_10%20Me,%20Hong,%20Low%20New%20York%20Press%20p4a.jpg" width="132" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZbCNmbBf3JofM1hhIfuf4BOSUdp3PnMW7Chuix1deDL_uOrxThGl3e7ijfgt8hO7o8YqoGPgtejmd-21ny8F63bx94orvPtUMC1gV6RH-LPGrGsaK9xvCTPZcmXtJzCBoSF9thXU1ICNDObEhfsmnZJu9Kyx_ye4upxRBviGnepcWBhovShTMZcKFC0/s800/1898_11_10%20Me,%20Hong,%20Low%20New%20York%20Press%20p4b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="800" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZbCNmbBf3JofM1hhIfuf4BOSUdp3PnMW7Chuix1deDL_uOrxThGl3e7ijfgt8hO7o8YqoGPgtejmd-21ny8F63bx94orvPtUMC1gV6RH-LPGrGsaK9xvCTPZcmXtJzCBoSF9thXU1ICNDObEhfsmnZJu9Kyx_ye4upxRBviGnepcWBhovShTMZcKFC0/w400-h125/1898_11_10%20Me,%20Hong,%20Low%20New%20York%20Press%20p4b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><p>New York <i>Herald</i>, November 10, 1898 </p><blockquote><div>Chinaman Found Stabbed.</div><div>Shue White, It Was Reported, Was Hurt in a Fight and Is in a Dying Condition.</div><div><br /></div><div>With a terrible stab wound in his neck, evidently made with a large knife, Shue White, a Chinese waiter, fifty-six years old, was found in a dying condition early yesterday morning in a restaurant at No. 12 Mott street. Because of his condition the man was unable to tell who stabbed him, and the police, so far, have been unable to find any clew that will aid them in unravelling the mystery. They have been greatly handicapped in their efforts to find White’s assailant because the finding of the man was not reported from the Hudson Street Hospital for several hours.</div><div><br /></div><div>White was employed in the restaurant where he was attacked. Me Hong Low was his employer. He lived next door, at No. 14 Mott street, and had been at work all the evening, serving chop suey, shark’s fins and other delicacies to Chinamen of the district, but shortly after midnight, when an ambulance was summoned, not a person was in the place. </div><div><br /></div><div>Der. Bailey, the ambulance surgeon, found the Chinaman lying on the floor, unable to speak.</div><div><br /></div><div>When Sergeant McNamara, of the Eldridge street station, learned of the case it was nearly three o’clock, and even then the word came from a boy and not from the hospital. The boy said a Chinaman had been stabbed In a fight at No. 12 Mott street, but could not give any particulars. Detective Brennan hastened to the restaurant, where he found everything as quiet as if the place had never been inhabited.</div><div><br /></div><div>He woke up Me Hong Low and several other Chinamen, but all, with their best English they could command, declared they knew nothing about any fight. Half a dozen detectives were put on the case at daylight, but, owing to the inborn reticence of every Chinaman in Mott street, they have been unable to learn anything. White’s condition was reported, as critical at the hospital last night.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUiN730fOycaSqcZEH8GlcaHEPWkCtkYe3lRRrm_GxFwgHMLILSI1WfqHD2nVm3qeH7s6HXwVnjXmw_ceXCihyy0NnaNq5Nm6liO7UjsnKv-qk2GKOt89PtGoZ7FUmP06uJSVKv6HDzGGg6U-Czqthr-QaZ06ZbRhaHbFKjp_Uca9If97us6JxbgBubVg/s800/1898_11_10%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20New%20York%20Herald%20p13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="390" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUiN730fOycaSqcZEH8GlcaHEPWkCtkYe3lRRrm_GxFwgHMLILSI1WfqHD2nVm3qeH7s6HXwVnjXmw_ceXCihyy0NnaNq5Nm6liO7UjsnKv-qk2GKOt89PtGoZ7FUmP06uJSVKv6HDzGGg6U-Czqthr-QaZ06ZbRhaHbFKjp_Uca9If97us6JxbgBubVg/s320/1898_11_10%20Me%20Hong%20Low%20New%20York%20Herald%20p13.jpg" width="156" /></a></div><p><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1898-11-10/ed-1/seq-8/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">New York <i>Daily Tribune</i></a><span style="text-align: center;">, November 10, 1898</span></p><blockquote><div>Queer Crime in Chinatown.</div><div>A Cook Found with His Throat Cut—Won’t Say How He Was Hurt—No Arrests.</div><div><br /></div><div>A citizen called an ambulance from the Hudson Street Hospital late on Tuesday night to care for a Chinaman who was found with his throat cut in a restaurant kept by Me, Hong, Low & Co., on the second floor of No. 14 Mott-st. The Chinaman was weak from loss of blood, and was unable or unwilling to tell how he had received his wound. At the hospital it was learned, after much difficulty, that his name was Chue White, and that he was employed as a cook in the restaurant. </div><div><br /></div><div>The police of the Elizabeth-st. station were not informed of the case until 1 o’clock yesterday morning, when a small boy entered the station and informed the sergeant that “a chink” had been cut in a “scrap” at No. 14 Mott-st. A detective was sent to investigate, but he found the eating-house closed. All of the Chinamen in the building were apparently asleep, and those who were aroused shrugged their shoulders and intimated that they knew nothing of the affair.</div><div><br /></div><div>Another effort was made yesterday to ascertain how the wounded Celestial received his injury, but vainly, and as the Chinaman at the hospital still refused to say how he had been hurt or to accuse anybody the police could do nothing. The doctors at the hospital hope to save White’s life.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopK1N1EB0c3oVtkXtGLrwgxNghrfin99-jmrxn4Gem1gEldd1nDC3Ajy_KwSCowXp_blQbV3tJlAAnA0ahR4H96qpBRNcyqr4XbbwXnulahYSS7jx-JkJ4tFXZ2QUm0FqYpTGAQ_2peGd5lTsKo3an67kwM2C6Ohg4_JQJrgIvRglppVN7n8Qq2GSFsA/s800/1898_11_10%20Me,%20Hong,%20Low%20New%20York%20Tribune%20p8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="680" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopK1N1EB0c3oVtkXtGLrwgxNghrfin99-jmrxn4Gem1gEldd1nDC3Ajy_KwSCowXp_blQbV3tJlAAnA0ahR4H96qpBRNcyqr4XbbwXnulahYSS7jx-JkJ4tFXZ2QUm0FqYpTGAQ_2peGd5lTsKo3an67kwM2C6Ohg4_JQJrgIvRglppVN7n8Qq2GSFsA/w171-h200/1898_11_10%20Me,%20Hong,%20Low%20New%20York%20Tribune%20p8.jpg" width="171" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: 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Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-36492533949502972502024-02-28T08:00:00.223-05:002024-03-13T08:18:44.458-04:00Ngoot Lee, Artist, Cook and Charter Member of the Group of the Oblong Table aka Chinese Gourmet Club aka Gourmet Eating Club aka Chinese Gourmet Society<div><br /></div><div>At Ancestry.com, there is a passenger list with Ngoot Lee, age eleven and born in “Toishan, China”. On September 29, 1939, he departed Hong Kong and arrived at Vancouver, British Columbia on October 19, 1939.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipd0HhJaFaSTV4QNDz0Jir4QxtilEyfs1HE-5KPbC95_vBGmw0VVQ1MIMSuoR2k0WX_nyLLMXxfdvYoL-QFzQ8dxLTGB47fo_bpfi2TLf3d9MGbIlV4RHQ3PcHtuVmStuH52zibyGWKOex57YuJMTmFw2QoIs-FC7Uq_oWfyiVHfcc4U82yUXn0Sonpt4/s4161/1939_09_29%20Ngoot%20Lee%20Vancouver%20Passenger%20List%20L3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3801" data-original-width="4161" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipd0HhJaFaSTV4QNDz0Jir4QxtilEyfs1HE-5KPbC95_vBGmw0VVQ1MIMSuoR2k0WX_nyLLMXxfdvYoL-QFzQ8dxLTGB47fo_bpfi2TLf3d9MGbIlV4RHQ3PcHtuVmStuH52zibyGWKOex57YuJMTmFw2QoIs-FC7Uq_oWfyiVHfcc4U82yUXn0Sonpt4/w400-h366/1939_09_29%20Ngoot%20Lee%20Vancouver%20Passenger%20List%20L3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMiqiLq8V1r07mXgnAcQLs2655bSoRvCZgiLnT8xE1DX0dyqAJStd-NDqFjB6_w5cApEN6BONJkGydYRcmUUec4Ynpew8sqMr8ETT-bJ8m3xebkWb7_V8xi5fWoEOTkGPtzigtcy_K6JKspPE1RnzqV6qH6WkOFXYo42unwRXkE3is-MwxMGk1fLRRIBk/s4218/1939_10_19%20Ngoot%20Lee%20Vancouver%20Passenger%20List%20L3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3811" data-original-width="4218" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMiqiLq8V1r07mXgnAcQLs2655bSoRvCZgiLnT8xE1DX0dyqAJStd-NDqFjB6_w5cApEN6BONJkGydYRcmUUec4Ynpew8sqMr8ETT-bJ8m3xebkWb7_V8xi5fWoEOTkGPtzigtcy_K6JKspPE1RnzqV6qH6WkOFXYo42unwRXkE3is-MwxMGk1fLRRIBk/w400-h361/1939_10_19%20Ngoot%20Lee%20Vancouver%20Passenger%20List%20L3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>A train took Lee to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia where he departed by sea on October 27, 1939 and landed in Boston the next day. Waiting for him was his brother, Lin Lee who resided at 50 Beach Street in Chinatown.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMyej_C-5xHdUwyaJn43GsiRp5F-_G4ANwWEo7pRA0vMH-PQZ5AgwLH4pTU5o42PdslYIlZNFABqSFPrJO_7rJu6V5jIRCZ9MD6K_yGwyUR8YzhSIZk1BMMWnA2Vkttzl6sDOy6kQbI24b8Kje2J2F3VSQH5TErOpQuFtltNOgw3hWj5AnoClunmgESAk/s2655/1939_10_27%20Ngoot%20Lee%20Passenger%20List%20L3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2498" data-original-width="2655" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMyej_C-5xHdUwyaJn43GsiRp5F-_G4ANwWEo7pRA0vMH-PQZ5AgwLH4pTU5o42PdslYIlZNFABqSFPrJO_7rJu6V5jIRCZ9MD6K_yGwyUR8YzhSIZk1BMMWnA2Vkttzl6sDOy6kQbI24b8Kje2J2F3VSQH5TErOpQuFtltNOgw3hWj5AnoClunmgESAk/w400-h376/1939_10_27%20Ngoot%20Lee%20Passenger%20List%20L3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMLf2gvL9f-0YnvvqLeeMV_5TyTU0bVjX1WcByko37zZfU5Go3CjReqUSOJvpsppvwZHIFVvD1V3TlFuGeFdsz7AmcEnZ2MVh39A53FOVR0PvUNJa2Eu_Oah1lUpywP-iQ7V5UMof_AwMfnufbVLiwMo-nXDWmlqrbJQbHxXpBXkIqBO-ojQamjDJWqY/s2655/1939_10_28%20Ngoot%20Lee%20Passenger%20List%20L3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="2655" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMLf2gvL9f-0YnvvqLeeMV_5TyTU0bVjX1WcByko37zZfU5Go3CjReqUSOJvpsppvwZHIFVvD1V3TlFuGeFdsz7AmcEnZ2MVh39A53FOVR0PvUNJa2Eu_Oah1lUpywP-iQ7V5UMof_AwMfnufbVLiwMo-nXDWmlqrbJQbHxXpBXkIqBO-ojQamjDJWqY/w400-h375/1939_10_28%20Ngoot%20Lee%20Passenger%20List%20L3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Lee testified he was born on CR [Chinese Republic] 18-12-8 or January 7, 1930 at Goot Woo Village, Sun Ning District (Taishan), China. (Public records at Ancesrtry.com have his birth date as July 1, 1930.)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1uNyD__aFyCSZKlKIPuQKCS3l0v58-bb31yfRBEOznYeSmGabc1wYRQr6YMsZUyTM_bz33so4NAv-OJDZi0uhkDabrZIFzMrYUomsxX6AeV6nOaYlR12Vsodn6p4KFpeheB_biRvha1h3fk7cAS4kD92tI1yrFizWSwMZeaOt_C4MkJA4GSCmKyrVzY/s7133/CR%2018-12-8%20Chinese-American%20Calendar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7133" data-original-width="5455" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1uNyD__aFyCSZKlKIPuQKCS3l0v58-bb31yfRBEOznYeSmGabc1wYRQr6YMsZUyTM_bz33so4NAv-OJDZi0uhkDabrZIFzMrYUomsxX6AeV6nOaYlR12Vsodn6p4KFpeheB_biRvha1h3fk7cAS4kD92tI1yrFizWSwMZeaOt_C4MkJA4GSCmKyrVzY/w308-h400/CR%2018-12-8%20Chinese-American%20Calendar.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/chineseamericanc01welc/page/80/mode/2up" target="_blank">Chinese-American Calendar for the 102 Chinese Years </a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/chineseamericanc01welc/page/80/mode/2up" target="_blank">Commencing January 24, 1849, and Ending February 5, 1951</a></i> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Below are selected pages from Lee’s Chinese Exclusion Act case file number 2500/12886 at the National Archives’ Boston branch in Waltham, Massachusetts. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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In Lee’s file was a two-page school attendance letter, dated July 11, 1940, by Boston’s Office of Supervisor of Attendance. The second page said Lee was somewhere in New York City.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Kt76UHujwOL6NS1FVT87VZ7BSTCeke7hr7567Od1fkb4TFg5sjNfQrbj4WyYkGvcQjGEugdK6-jfNwMZ5-Mc31xsaKXBCss_fDOyMhq5jPUhGRnnGhaw-O2R7PtFh4jFKfCtjmI3owewZOvj_1OtF1NV2v9j89cxkbgD-ky_mIzQF3ClZeovOG05UOU/s4653/1940_07_11%20Lee%20Ngoot%202500-12886%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4653" data-original-width="3566" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Kt76UHujwOL6NS1FVT87VZ7BSTCeke7hr7567Od1fkb4TFg5sjNfQrbj4WyYkGvcQjGEugdK6-jfNwMZ5-Mc31xsaKXBCss_fDOyMhq5jPUhGRnnGhaw-O2R7PtFh4jFKfCtjmI3owewZOvj_1OtF1NV2v9j89cxkbgD-ky_mIzQF3ClZeovOG05UOU/w308-h400/1940_07_11%20Lee%20Ngoot%202500-12886%2001.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVl7VUjW1hn2wKW65CJbOax_zmqAulxSCJ-PxFKywPxinSn5_qYSioYSFb8L09Ue74bfnAHK6_arGBzqvwOB5ssnCwKVvtSjFxmVCFfONuh4HECqo3s3mZ7-J0bClftEwUQGVPel4HR1-ZKZicQlEvOMrhExDEoiFSVdelqkkTVMgX3obsEtq_1kURBzo/s4503/1940_07_11%20Lee%20Ngoot%202500-12886%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4503" data-original-width="3470" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVl7VUjW1hn2wKW65CJbOax_zmqAulxSCJ-PxFKywPxinSn5_qYSioYSFb8L09Ue74bfnAHK6_arGBzqvwOB5ssnCwKVvtSjFxmVCFfONuh4HECqo3s3mZ7-J0bClftEwUQGVPel4HR1-ZKZicQlEvOMrhExDEoiFSVdelqkkTVMgX3obsEtq_1kURBzo/w309-h400/1940_07_11%20Lee%20Ngoot%202500-12886%2002.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Joseph Heller and Speed Vogel’s <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/nolaughingmatter00jose/page/28/mode/2up?q=%22Ngoot+Lee%22" target="_blank">No Laughing Matter</a></i> (2004) said </div><div><blockquote>One of the people Zero [Mostel] introduced me to there was Ngoot Lee, a fine painter who soon became a good friend. When he was about ten, Ngoot left Canton to visit an uncle, a wealthy Chinatown merchant. Ngoot liked New York and decided to stay, attending school, then working in restaurants and at odd jobs until he moved to Twenty-eighth Street some ten years later. </blockquote></div><div>In 1950 Lee graduated from the <a href="http://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/2017/11/comics-school-of-industrial-arts.html" target="_blank">School of Industrial Art</a> in Manhattan. Also in the class of 1950 were future comic book artists <a href="http://www.bailsprojects.com/whoswho.aspx?mode=AtoZsearch&id=COLON%2c+ERNIE" target="_blank">Ernie Colon</a> and <a href="http://www.bailsprojects.com/whoswho.aspx?mode=AtoZsearch&id=INFANTINO%2c+JIM" target="_blank">Jim Infantino</a>. A year behind them were <a href="http://www.bailsprojects.com/whoswho.aspx?mode=AtoZsearch&id=TALLARICO%2c+TONY" target="_blank">Tony Tallarico</a> and <a href="http://www.bailsprojects.com/whoswho.aspx?mode=AtoZsearch&id=TORRES%2c+ANGELO" target="_blank">Angelo Torres</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfr4chjrIjce7Xl_R2hdjrDtK24Z5kVnNZk2sVJ0yub8X55mWtoyy5SXlMXgfLl5uJ3AU_Zj58ROp3GbTFas7RJYIWA8lcWhJtvXGk4HIdtIWz0Gvp7YNUmVMm3pwgut0mYrdKq8CNunCd7_1g6pxnouVnq-mj37kWIb4ZS4cMeX799NGwEtzwPFR3JQ/s2883/1950%20Ngoot%20Lee%20SIA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1131" data-original-width="2883" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfr4chjrIjce7Xl_R2hdjrDtK24Z5kVnNZk2sVJ0yub8X55mWtoyy5SXlMXgfLl5uJ3AU_Zj58ROp3GbTFas7RJYIWA8lcWhJtvXGk4HIdtIWz0Gvp7YNUmVMm3pwgut0mYrdKq8CNunCd7_1g6pxnouVnq-mj37kWIb4ZS4cMeX799NGwEtzwPFR3JQ/w400-h158/1950%20Ngoot%20Lee%20SIA.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Palette</i> yearbook</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>A photograph of Lee appeared in <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/per_christian-science-monitor_1950-06-17_42_172/page/10/mode/2up" target="_blank">The Christian Science Monitor</a></i>, June 17, 1950. </div><div><br /></div><div>The 1950 census recorded Lee (line 16) in Chinatown at 34–38 Mott Street in apartment 8. Of interest is one of the neighbors, in apartment 7, Virginia Lee who worked in advertising. His future career would include advertising.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguN9NP6To5xONfTzvA7TDQbzqsbUxTJ_GPvaeVyroqM5UWOw8mgZsfk-KiRkbB8WSSDLMGHBSseWg9JWZcQ0R2sXc3K6PIES5htP3yotX_cHNwkJBZKRX1ACgI-PjMrgUdAJE-0rcepynJ0jQiaOGFT4wjYFCdhwmaOO83OsfCtLLE_tA8Wvhg3aM9rl4/s4371/1950%20Ngoot%20Lee%20Census%20L16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4371" data-original-width="3747" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguN9NP6To5xONfTzvA7TDQbzqsbUxTJ_GPvaeVyroqM5UWOw8mgZsfk-KiRkbB8WSSDLMGHBSseWg9JWZcQ0R2sXc3K6PIES5htP3yotX_cHNwkJBZKRX1ACgI-PjMrgUdAJE-0rcepynJ0jQiaOGFT4wjYFCdhwmaOO83OsfCtLLE_tA8Wvhg3aM9rl4/w343-h400/1950%20Ngoot%20Lee%20Census%20L16.jpg" width="343" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Several New York City telephone directories are available at Ancestry.com. Lee was not listed in 1953. Directories for 1954 to 1956 and 1958 were not available. Lee was listed in 1957, 1959 and 1960 at 51 West 28th Street. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrCbiIdcTzKlN9U8ggF5WWShujTZKV9On7PRlqO3uENJyNfQoaHLQqFnaj5qduBVecCLmsoHADXYFm7-gr9Ra8F5oSpwAD-Jr3NXmLWahiAvPqVqxFzGFA6WiPpCgQQkeXPl5P8cPhzsyXX8D592nNt3gHZ1Mu6HcsIMtoND32ChA5S9VRzQcRKgf8elQ/s930/1957%20Ngoot%20Lee%2051%20W%2028%20St%20Manhattan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="930" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrCbiIdcTzKlN9U8ggF5WWShujTZKV9On7PRlqO3uENJyNfQoaHLQqFnaj5qduBVecCLmsoHADXYFm7-gr9Ra8F5oSpwAD-Jr3NXmLWahiAvPqVqxFzGFA6WiPpCgQQkeXPl5P8cPhzsyXX8D592nNt3gHZ1Mu6HcsIMtoND32ChA5S9VRzQcRKgf8elQ/s320/1957%20Ngoot%20Lee%2051%20W%2028%20St%20Manhattan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">1957</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1r00CXe_p8VFUl1y0zfW4eUPoJYBlIpm1N_v2AxAMrDxi3VVGOy_i8EAwztPBpO5PWnLBJhYWHZcKdxZzX7JolSYzdDHAfz9a9_04Il76g-2T53pS7MrWUmDmRRm-fg6eEvUjvQM-qhB_noqH67NVmH4du0L_rcbb444JhP3QgY6q5G3LuXFQGXOOTg/s960/1959%20Ngoot%20Lee%2051%20W%2028%20St%20Manhattan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="960" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1r00CXe_p8VFUl1y0zfW4eUPoJYBlIpm1N_v2AxAMrDxi3VVGOy_i8EAwztPBpO5PWnLBJhYWHZcKdxZzX7JolSYzdDHAfz9a9_04Il76g-2T53pS7MrWUmDmRRm-fg6eEvUjvQM-qhB_noqH67NVmH4du0L_rcbb444JhP3QgY6q5G3LuXFQGXOOTg/s320/1959%20Ngoot%20Lee%2051%20W%2028%20St%20Manhattan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">1959</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdSS-pHqInDKqze75XTyTeP_Iw1fqMlDq_rOT2idkR3eYYuGFcJ5OzM7thRQCCfwzs0CzMrLBz3Xb3i8XePQx5cldbiXdrL1CYzJUtROCqnKnfNUP7VFtLD0TQ_PxIuDxp1JAH-fY1jXnjz3HmNlPqWLVF0hwANuBoLfY8qGaxJ70nzdws6ageA8iInYk/s1883/1960%20Ngoot%20Lee%2051%20W%2028%20St%20Manhattan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1209" data-original-width="1883" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdSS-pHqInDKqze75XTyTeP_Iw1fqMlDq_rOT2idkR3eYYuGFcJ5OzM7thRQCCfwzs0CzMrLBz3Xb3i8XePQx5cldbiXdrL1CYzJUtROCqnKnfNUP7VFtLD0TQ_PxIuDxp1JAH-fY1jXnjz3HmNlPqWLVF0hwANuBoLfY8qGaxJ70nzdws6ageA8iInYk/s320/1960%20Ngoot%20Lee%2051%20W%2028%20St%20Manhattan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">1960</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div>The <i>Detroit Times</i> (Michigan), August 3, 1958, reported the new art gallery at <a href="https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/grinnell-brothers-music-house" target="_blank">Grinnell’s music store</a>. Included in the exhibition was Lee’s watercolor of horses.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_arts-magazine_1960-01_34_4/page/62/mode/2up?q=%22ngoot+lee%22" target="_blank">Arts</a></i>, January 1960, said </div><div><blockquote>Ngoot Lee, Moura Chabor, William Harris: Chabor shows pastels, oils and gouaches of dancing peasants and children at play. Lee’s pastels and inks are of animals and natural scenes. Harris shows collages which are really cut-out and assembled pictures and which, because of the sharp contrast between figure and ground, have an effect like that of a drawing. (Dorona, Nov. 18–Dec. 16.)</blockquote></div></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/zeromostelbiogra00brow/page/72/mode/2up?q=ngoot" target="_blank">Lee met Zero Mostel</a> on West 28th Street where each had an art studio. Mostel taught some Yiddish to Lee.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lee was mentioned in the syndicated column “<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1961-07-21/ed-1/seq-53/" target="_blank">The Lyons Den</a>” that appeared in the <i>Evening Star</i> (Washington, DC), July 21, 1961. </div><div><blockquote>Zero Mostel, star of “Rhinoceros,” is an accomplished painter. He has a protege named Ngoot Lee who was born in Kung Tung. Mostel invited the youngster to his summer home in Provincetown but there wasn’t enough room. Ngoot Lee therefore was given a room in the spacious home of Lily Harmon the painter. On the first night she cooked chow mein for him. He sampled it and said: “Hmmmm just like Mother used to make.”</blockquote></div><div>In the early 1960s Lee was a charter member of an eating club that included Mostel, Mel Brooks, Joseph Heller, <a href="https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn90066145/2008-04-24/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=01%2F01%2F1725&sort=date&date2=12%2F31%2F2020&searchType=advanced&SearchType=phrase&sequence=0&index=18&am+p=&words=Ngoot&proxdistance=&to_year=2020&rows=20&ortext=&from_year=1725&proxtext=&phrasetext=Ngoot&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=10" target="_blank">Speed Vogel</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mandel" target="_blank">George Mandel</a>, Julius Green, <a href="http://www.mariopuzo.com" target="_blank">Mario Puzo</a>, Joseph Stein and Carl Reiner. The start of the club was told in <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QWyNhT_MdkUC&pg=PT84&lpg=PT84&dq=%22Ngoot+Lee,+another+artist+and+advertising+friend%22&source=bl&ots=9Q3tUzj6EY&sig=ACfU3U0U6NZb1mrJL1uOsewfPfjc15hf4w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxj5WAh-eDAxWijYkEHe6BDDUQ6AF6BAgKEAM#v=onepage&q=%22Ngoot%20Lee%2C%20another%20artist%20and%20advertising%20friend%22&f=false" target="_blank">Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22</a></i> (2011). The club had various names: Group of the Oblong Table and Chinese Gourmet Club in Kenneth Tynan’s profile of Mel Brooks in <i><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/10/30/mel-brooks-frolics-and-detours-of-a-short-hebrew-man" target="_blank">The New Yorker</a></i>, October 30, 1978, page 101 (also <a href="https://archive.org/details/profiles0000tyna/page/380/mode/2up?q=%22ngoot%22" target="_blank">here</a>); Gourmet Club in <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>, Part 2, November 3, 1985, “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/03/magazine/eating-with-their-mouths-open.html" target="_blank">Eating with Their Mouth’s Open</a>”, page 62; Gourmet Eating Club in Carl Reiner’s <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/myanecdotallifem0000rein/page/176/mode/2up?q=%22ngoot+lee%22" target="_blank">My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir</a></i> (2003), page 176; and Chinese Gourmet Society in Mel Brooks’ <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Ank3EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA139&dq=%22Ngoot+Lee%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisyc6EyuP_AhXhhYkEHSpGAq0Q6AF6BAgIEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Ngoot%20Lee%22&f=false" target="_blank">All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business</a></i> (2021), page 139. Brooks said Lee </div><div><blockquote>... was a brilliant calligrapher and furniture designer who worked for Bloomingdale’s. He would set up some of their furniture displays and do framed calligraphy on the walls.</blockquote></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5fym7Neao1j9PPcvUSeY_bpeOlfjQH9Waa0WrxAAXMVgsbqJX27oUuEXeYDcr-_0cAsnMbZrrGZ2RSI0LBM1TLy8w68vfdbcMq7b_zh3iBaMApsClYgWI-imNtYj8VnnBcMZpvuXy173s1bcO90ZlH4l6356l69fK9rg3-f0a9tQfLxSVuM7_7gt_MfU/s1280/1985_11_03%20Ngoot%20Lee%20NYT%20Magazine%20art%20by%20Victor%20Juhasz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="1280" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5fym7Neao1j9PPcvUSeY_bpeOlfjQH9Waa0WrxAAXMVgsbqJX27oUuEXeYDcr-_0cAsnMbZrrGZ2RSI0LBM1TLy8w68vfdbcMq7b_zh3iBaMApsClYgWI-imNtYj8VnnBcMZpvuXy173s1bcO90ZlH4l6356l69fK9rg3-f0a9tQfLxSVuM7_7gt_MfU/s320/1985_11_03%20Ngoot%20Lee%20NYT%20Magazine%20art%20by%20Victor%20Juhasz.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Lee in a detail of Victor Juhasz’s illustration</div><div style="text-align: center;">for “Eating with Their Mouth’s Open”</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Excerpt from “Eating with Their Mouth’s Open”:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>[Speed] Vogel: Ngoot, is it true that the first time you invited Zero Mostel to your studio for a meal, he ate so much he could not get off the chair?</div><div><br /></div><div>Lee: It’s true. He fell asleep with his head on the plate. And when he woke up, he started teaching me Yiddish. The first thing he taught me was “Siz shver tzu zein a Yid (It’s hard to be a Jew).”</div><div><br /></div><div>[Joseph] Heller: What would Ngoot be if he had not come to New York and went to Kansas instead? He’d be Van Johnson, right?</div></blockquote></div><div><div>In the New York <i><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/459457572/" target="_blank">Daily News</a></i>, June 5, 1962, Charles McHarry, in his syndicated column, “On the Town”, said</div><div><blockquote>Zero Mostel’s long-time buddy, painter Ngoot Lee, and pretty <a href="https://sortedbyname.com/letter_k/kongkatong.html" target="_blank">Sutiluck Kongkatong</a>, a Siamese, were married Sunday at Zero’s house in Manhattan.</blockquote></div></div><div>For the Friendship Press, Lee illustrated the 1962 book, <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/sunheestreetboy0000mcki/page/n3/mode/2up" target="_blank">Sun Hee and the Street Boy</a></i>. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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href="https://books.google.com/books?id=UQBOAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA9&dq=%22ngoot+lee%22&article_id=903,4448193&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2ns-TzOj_AhWKFFkFHc9GBlwQuwV6BAgIEAY#v=onepage&q=%22ngoot%20lee%22&f=false" target="_blank">The Village Voice</a></i>, December 16, 1965. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8UQ9ur7V9ZTJb5eMAphIg1V9ZMHcG6b6bCrvekCkiOUKpnZBVyuF6ZbhtJGeN9c-L-D72_N7feGiH4vCGHY-Pet-ZCjqFXiCqJWVoISr_wCQvXvP9a-9tvLa_b4TxHlgXTXnQKKq1aAiRWWi5m3hA_vvu5up0kyzkI3mygmYb9rFKS2N7UqgFvaKbHTc/s2279/1965_12_16%20Ngoot%20Lee%20Village%20Voice%20p16%20c2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1175" data-original-width="2279" height="208" 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target="_blank">Freehand: An Intimate Portrait of the New York Art Scene in Its Golden Years by a Remarkable Woman Who Lived, Loved, and Painted It</a></i> (1981) </div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FhBm6qQgkAsC&pg=PA175&dq=%22Ngoot+Lee%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisyc6EyuP_AhXhhYkEHSpGAq0Q6AF6BAgFEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Ngoot%20Lee%22&f=false" target="_blank">Conversations with Joseph Heller</a></i> (1993)</div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-FQermj0-78C&pg=PA172&dq=%22lee+ngoot%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7q8Cp_uP_AhWOGlkFHVhKCA0Q6AF6BAgIEAI#v=onepage&q=%22lee%20ngoot%22&f=false It’s Good to Be the King (2007) https://archive.org/details/itsgoodtobekings00pari/page/152/mode/2up?q=%22ngoot+lee%22" target="_blank">From Here to Absurdity: The Moral Battlefields of Joseph Heller</a></i> (1995)</div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PLyDAKz8clsC&pg=PA286&dq=%22I+take+you+this+best+place+in+Chinatown%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihnZjS_-P_AhWHD1kFHcLWBdIQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q=%22I%20take%20you%20this%20best%20place%20in%20Chinatown%22&f=false" target="_blank">Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller</a></i> (2011)</div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=96gsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA68&dq=%22Ngoot+Lee%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisyc6EyuP_AhXhhYkEHSpGAq0Q6AF6BAgBEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Ngoot%20Lee%22&f=false" target="_blank">Anne Bancroft: The Life and Work</a></i> (2017)</div></div><div><a href="http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2013/12/17/the-group-of-the-oblong-table-aka-the-chinese-gourmet-club/" target="_blank">Bronx Banter</a>, The Group of the Oblong Table (aka The Chinese Gourmet Club)</div><div><a href="http://www.bengitchelart.com/blog/after-wang-meng" target="_blank">Ben Mitchell Art</a></div><div><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/midnight-at-the-rickshaw_b_996944" target="_blank">Huff Post</a>, Midnight at the Rickshaw Garage</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Related Posts</b></div><div><a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2019/05/advertising-chinese-restaurant-1966.html" target="_blank">Chinese Restaurant, 1966</a></div><div><a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2023/11/photography-chinese-tuxedo-new-york-city.html" target="_blank">Chinese Tuxedo, New York City</a></div><div><a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2017/11/combination-platter.html" target="_blank">Combination Platter</a></div><div><a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2023/03/dan-wayne-lee-designer-and-restauranteur.html" target="_blank">Dan Wayne Lee, Designer and Restauranteur</a></div><div><a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2024/03/graphics-dining-at-14-mott-street-in.html" target="_blank">Dining at 14 Mott Street in New York Chinatown, Part 1: 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Waiter and Artist<div><br /></div><div><i>New York Herald</i>, October 23, 1910</div><div></div><blockquote><div>The Unsuspected Wits of Some Waiters</div><div><br /></div><div>... Brawn, however, was not exactly what I was searching for. Was there no Waiter Artistic to be found among the greater deserts of the New York dining room?</div><div><br /></div><div>Yes; he was discovered presently, an ivory, tint Oriental of the name of Lee Ti, consecrated for some few months to art—while his savings held—but recently the servitor of chop suey and other confections at the Mon Far Low, which is Loo Lin's and is in Chinatown.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lee Ti is small and quick moving, and has shining Oriental eyes, bright as lizards. He will tell you (although you must be very diplomatic to tempt his confidence) that he has been here since he was a boy. He once was wealthy, but his material estate has fallen, though he bears his cross and his noodles more cheerfully than might most of us. </div><div><br /></div><div>He paints now (or in some spare moments of waiting) delicate, flat toned pictures. And when he speaks of them something beacons from his eyes. Then you know that he has a theory, and you learn that he has a mission,</div><div><br /></div><div>“The weakness of the Western and the Eastern artist,” says he, with his specific but irreproducable [sic] dialect, “is that each refuses to consider the possibilities of beauty in the other’s art, and in so doing shuts his eyes to the possibility of a universal art—an art as broad as humanity—and therefore to a greater art than any which has gone before.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Now, each of the arts has beauties of its own which the other fails to suggest. About the Western art is a vibrancy, a movement, a warmth perhaps lacking in that of China or Japan. But the Eastern art, on the other hand, has a broad simplicity, a delicacy, which even your greatest masters have not approached.</div><div><br /></div><div>“In manual dexterity, too, the Eastern artist is far beyond his Western brother. The Westerner even affects to despise it, though when he christens it ‘technique’ he plods after it in a crude way of his own. But I prefer to call it ‘manual dexterity,’ and it is far more important to creative result than even the greatest of technicians conceive it to be.</div><div><br /></div><div>“It represents the difference between subtlety and its opposite, between the responsive and the unmoving. Think of the magical touch of the Easterner, who, without pencil, does everything unerringly with one small brush. Then compare him and his mechanical results with the Western painter, aided by his dozens of brushes, all used for greater mechanical ease. </div><div><br /></div><div>His Art Chat.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Waiter Artistic paused smilingly, after the bland ways of his race, and resumed:—</div><div><br /></div><div>“I spoke about simplicity. In painting our race looks at nature more simply than does yours. We look in simple flats, you look in intricate ‘rounds.’ To merge, say, a sky with land you grade imperceptibly; we merge more effectively by arrangement. Up to the present your greatest artists have been those who have studied the art of looking simply at things, though even the greatest of them look far less simply than do the artists of our race.</div><div><br /></div><div>“On the other hand, we can learn much in perspective from you, much intensity, much in warmth and much in characterization. I see these things—I who am Chinese and American too—and I am trying to incorporate the beauties of each art and unify it in</div><div>another. I shall have introduced a broader art, a greater art, a universal art, to the world.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Lee Ti, too, drifted out, to be (who knows?) acclaimed in some hundreds of years as one of earth’s great originators, from the germ of whose idea the fruit of progress has come. ...</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz56IuePrRGZWn4M0AmaDd2PzZNAu9ERMKvEhQdy26MPKAtcf8s26FJTHGbpZvldU6DTbuC2O8-aX2dX-4yC_JXlllgLVm3bU1c0U30B8SFbIXiYd4Wg9anlml66GYfy6MHbG1GKtEjnqACWZvw_snhpLKZcqeTnbOqyBaxT5IhXDwnSAOWqbo-BD9Rnk/s9069/1910_10_23%20Lee%20Ti%20New%20York%20Herald%20Magazine%20p4%20c3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="9069" data-original-width="6515" height="640" 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href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TNIwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA441&lpg=PA441&dq=%22low+woey+sin%22&source=bl&ots=Fp8OcBemRS&sig=ACfU3U3GwIrV9B8v24sUDV-SX4hbY15r1Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1_5TR5d2DAxXwEFkFHVSZBHsQ6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=%22low%20woey%20sin%22&f=false" target="_blank">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/newenglandbusine19023bost/page/428/mode/2up?q=%22Woey+Sin%22" target="_blank">Providence (Rhode Island</a>) and <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oxZBAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1515&dq=%22Woey+Sin+Low%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiy4J7slt2DAxWyFFkFHUVqBloQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Woey%20Sin%20Low%22&f=false" target="_blank">Carson City (Nevada</a>). </div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2LPlQPNgQkZBEYx2Djtf__AsR75gYgn5YTcG5M1Y5XnaJ_EMwO9ROkqeaqsIq16vnY9QvhzwnZ6kYeJBVbXEqYNYn5ewB7za2ZH1P-qbbqolbi9WGIvfCArQsdlxzKim00_kSffQTD3CljgQucdHukf5kja6HK02MTYdkAk-i6j2M2GMCoj5cS9X6fO4/s800/1901%20Woey%20Sin%20Low%20Menu%20NYC%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="800" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2LPlQPNgQkZBEYx2Djtf__AsR75gYgn5YTcG5M1Y5XnaJ_EMwO9ROkqeaqsIq16vnY9QvhzwnZ6kYeJBVbXEqYNYn5ewB7za2ZH1P-qbbqolbi9WGIvfCArQsdlxzKim00_kSffQTD3CljgQucdHukf5kja6HK02MTYdkAk-i6j2M2GMCoj5cS9X6fO4/w400-h281/1901%20Woey%20Sin%20Low%20Menu%20NYC%2002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghWfsT2SwKPY9lplbCPuryXDi_oofL-bJCA92T_vbVZ_5QkdJbKPjPYM0GF-3-wRyylZi27dv0NLxkZEyo3XMDMD1-pzR0aLINui7IXsHsvKfizviAlgv_Wq1fOtLG1h2lpCPtJs8cludhkZw_gHroUy90hatb3ebTTktsN50ALKuVxqiKZ-AVfAEVuPE/s2073/1901%20Woey%20Sin%20Low%20Menu%20NYC%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1451" data-original-width="2073" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghWfsT2SwKPY9lplbCPuryXDi_oofL-bJCA92T_vbVZ_5QkdJbKPjPYM0GF-3-wRyylZi27dv0NLxkZEyo3XMDMD1-pzR0aLINui7IXsHsvKfizviAlgv_Wq1fOtLG1h2lpCPtJs8cludhkZw_gHroUy90hatb3ebTTktsN50ALKuVxqiKZ-AVfAEVuPE/w400-h281/1901%20Woey%20Sin%20Low%20Menu%20NYC%2001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">6.875 x 4.875 inches unfolded; designer and calligrapher unknown</div><div><br /></div><div>The New York Woey Sin Low was located in Chinatown at 20 Mott Street on an upper floor. The restaurant was not mentioned in <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924023507217/page/n65/mode/2up?q=%2220+mott%22" target="_blank">New York’s Chinatown: An Historical Presentation of Its People and Places</a></i> (1898). </div><div><blockquote>There are seven restaurants in Chinatown which rank as first-class places, and four others of the second or lower class, some of which would more properly be called mere eating houses. Those of the first-class are the following: Hon Heong Lau, 11 Mott Street; King Heong Lau, 16 Mott Street; Me Heong Lau, 14 Mott Street; Way Heong Lau, 20 Mott Street; Gui Ye Quan, 34 Pell Street; Mon Li Won, 24 Pell Street, and Kum Sun, 16 Pell Street. </blockquote></div><div>Way Hong Low, at 20 Mott Street, was listed in the 1899 and 1900 <i>Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx City of New York City.</i></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV8Kv0hpYTcy2Orl0Xp3izACiXCs4JZjltZvEsM9af-0ZyF2o5AeqgI9jlQbNQcSCUWgJa5CEdw9U-1zvkhalyTEVvU0hJO-yTobE5MPnVTbbormV_TUKzsKIzf1PqrK8008cntFHLJybe4VQK6-nTCCIXzlouaX7BtdMYEXUKCBK843LurBxNzFU3cfM/s1326/1899%20Way%20Hong%20Low%20Trow%E2%80%99s%20General%20Directory%20of%20Manhattan%20and%20Bronx%20NYC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1326" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV8Kv0hpYTcy2Orl0Xp3izACiXCs4JZjltZvEsM9af-0ZyF2o5AeqgI9jlQbNQcSCUWgJa5CEdw9U-1zvkhalyTEVvU0hJO-yTobE5MPnVTbbormV_TUKzsKIzf1PqrK8008cntFHLJybe4VQK6-nTCCIXzlouaX7BtdMYEXUKCBK843LurBxNzFU3cfM/s320/1899%20Way%20Hong%20Low%20Trow%E2%80%99s%20General%20Directory%20of%20Manhattan%20and%20Bronx%20NYC.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9o0JmfIrcqttm4nvMyRx_SUFF_NeL-preirNLWtMY_PzrWjzu9kNSRH-7GWygsdD3iOT_0pq_cMBnpmR4MFR-lAeXM0REk-vD_4YxdiW9iBENOor5ZZD82vhl7BQm86jXHWUPKMHLafeFfi_9l7KAkyQGhv4sYq9VQdxKfxic_55AEroN8z5MKRSEvCw/s1326/1900%20Way%20Hong%20Low%20Trow%E2%80%99s%20General%20Directory%20of%20Manhattan%20and%20Bronx%20NYC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1326" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9o0JmfIrcqttm4nvMyRx_SUFF_NeL-preirNLWtMY_PzrWjzu9kNSRH-7GWygsdD3iOT_0pq_cMBnpmR4MFR-lAeXM0REk-vD_4YxdiW9iBENOor5ZZD82vhl7BQm86jXHWUPKMHLafeFfi_9l7KAkyQGhv4sYq9VQdxKfxic_55AEroN8z5MKRSEvCw/s320/1900%20Way%20Hong%20Low%20Trow%E2%80%99s%20General%20Directory%20of%20Manhattan%20and%20Bronx%20NYC.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i>The New York Times</i> identified two of the tenants at 20 Mott Street: John Looern, merchant (<a href="https://archive.org/details/NYTimes-Aug-Sep-1898/page/n617/mode/2up?q=%2220+mott%22" target="_blank">September 4, 1898</a>), and Dr. Hong Bad, Chinese physician (<a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1885-01-27_34_10421/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%2220+mott%22" target="_blank">November 30, 1898</a>). </div><div><br /></div><div>The earliest mention of Woey Sin Low was found in <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vyIvErh2_38C&pg=PT796&dq=%22Woey+Sin+Low%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9gt-169aDAxWmFFkFHeRPBzgQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Woey%20Sin%20Low%22&f=false" target="_blank">Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx</a></i>, Volume 114, July 1, 1901.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIsosrdGZR1qyMPGHeQKs4rUx9wp1wajSbQOfXZs7IJwMcHn-Jkj61tPp9XImc2Ru0fhL9p93yqMFl_AOkcNn0-G0uMAJ64HKH-2TEyFW1d4nXJmBRl4RCGtdLVgXDdyTTL94F5kXD3tOhHfi-xxlnhUWSaAXEq3rNiNpqPz9iEkSE2UhyphenhyphenKkbG9td3kM/s1220/1901%20Woey%20Sin%20Low%20Trow%E2%80%99s%20General%20Directory%20of%20Manhattan%20and%20Bronx%20NYC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1220" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIsosrdGZR1qyMPGHeQKs4rUx9wp1wajSbQOfXZs7IJwMcHn-Jkj61tPp9XImc2Ru0fhL9p93yqMFl_AOkcNn0-G0uMAJ64HKH-2TEyFW1d4nXJmBRl4RCGtdLVgXDdyTTL94F5kXD3tOhHfi-xxlnhUWSaAXEq3rNiNpqPz9iEkSE2UhyphenhyphenKkbG9td3kM/s320/1901%20Woey%20Sin%20Low%20Trow%E2%80%99s%20General%20Directory%20of%20Manhattan%20and%20Bronx%20NYC.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The <i>Evening Telegram</i> (Syracuse, New York), May 21, 1901, wrote about a former employee who opened a Chinese restaurant in Syracuse, New York.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHD-XA9tL06yY5e6D519eQY54RZnBS2CS-JjXl9ToJ1M2FXYmJBTJQfBxocxGKmuRNZZmtxw2S6K2qTRNB8K1n08Qsf2Sufymq93Q2ghbJcBAog6kphMgnNPM4fsGdnP7YeDzFv8BNQu4EyX33PCrEHe7bxLyEZEu_tNhJuM98X4QfuPXiTQPNJnIC0dE/s1806/1901_05_21%20Woey%20Sin%20Low%20Evening%20Telegram%20(Syracuse%20NY)%20p6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1806" data-original-width="1483" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHD-XA9tL06yY5e6D519eQY54RZnBS2CS-JjXl9ToJ1M2FXYmJBTJQfBxocxGKmuRNZZmtxw2S6K2qTRNB8K1n08Qsf2Sufymq93Q2ghbJcBAog6kphMgnNPM4fsGdnP7YeDzFv8BNQu4EyX33PCrEHe7bxLyEZEu_tNhJuM98X4QfuPXiTQPNJnIC0dE/w329-h400/1901_05_21%20Woey%20Sin%20Low%20Evening%20Telegram%20(Syracuse%20NY)%20p6.jpg" width="329" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i>The New York Times</i> reported two deaths at 20 Mott Street: Chin Chong, 49, March 31 (<a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1902-04-02_51_16298/page/n7/mode/2up?q=%2220+mott%22" target="_blank">April 2, 1902</a>) and Lee Yee, 23, September 23 (<a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1902-09-25_52_16449/page/n7/mode/2up?q=%2220+mott%22" target="_blank">September 25, 1902</a>). </div><div><br /></div><div>Woey Sin Low was listed in <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldir1903p3trow/page/n747/mode/2up?q=%22Woey+Sin+Low%22" target="_blank">Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx</a></i>, Volume 116, July 1, 1903.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAAkftr0sTx75f6ufdejcsFJ8x4tzHy4Smso3Xjpo2wbw2ppU613WTC7Fho90DqKeJH1MGTTq4FD8CL4rRoaFECWtg9AT562Bzsj4gblhX1K_maKFfavVA2vsotLtneGZTpW0TzsMCMGGf_XV8dj6Zh1Z7X_UIufxBY6HHdEuA0WcNaePLgk3tzEYfpaE/s648/1903%20Woey%20Sin%20Low%20Trow%E2%80%99s%20Directory%20of%20Manhattan%20and%20Bronx%20NYC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="648" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAAkftr0sTx75f6ufdejcsFJ8x4tzHy4Smso3Xjpo2wbw2ppU613WTC7Fho90DqKeJH1MGTTq4FD8CL4rRoaFECWtg9AT562Bzsj4gblhX1K_maKFfavVA2vsotLtneGZTpW0TzsMCMGGf_XV8dj6Zh1Z7X_UIufxBY6HHdEuA0WcNaePLgk3tzEYfpaE/s320/1903%20Woey%20Sin%20Low%20Trow%E2%80%99s%20Directory%20of%20Manhattan%20and%20Bronx%20NYC.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>At the same address was <a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldire19032trow/page/n1113/mode/2up?q=%2220+mott%22" target="_blank">Quong Wing Shing & Co.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Woey Sin Low was not listed in the 1904 <i>Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx</i> and evidently out of business.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjaRChgiIb6grvjiCA1TysX6FXm2edcOG0A_AM06B_OvIDebqc_KYIpQZ0DLy7h513LVG9cECSCSlnTBZuwZ1bSdblk97zaJ5q0_MpjYDkVy4_08-Vfl1VF4H_avLHZ-R72FUopSXOPbkiQSoK5cX2R1_Y0rDrU1hiCE5TIEAzt43WJHpXofgCII1wSn4/s6508/1890_11_22%20New%20York%20Chinatown%20Wedding%20Harper's%20Weekly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6508" data-original-width="4697" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjaRChgiIb6grvjiCA1TysX6FXm2edcOG0A_AM06B_OvIDebqc_KYIpQZ0DLy7h513LVG9cECSCSlnTBZuwZ1bSdblk97zaJ5q0_MpjYDkVy4_08-Vfl1VF4H_avLHZ-R72FUopSXOPbkiQSoK5cX2R1_Y0rDrU1hiCE5TIEAzt43WJHpXofgCII1wSn4/w466-h640/1890_11_22%20New%20York%20Chinatown%20Wedding%20Harper's%20Weekly.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=1AqckzecmyQC&pg=PR8&lpg=PR8&dq=%22our+chinese+colony%22+%22harper%27s+weekly%22&source=bl&ots=T4xXHxOR9_&sig=ACfU3U2yOQgY5CdwAKFKtI5O5HEsOMUsfA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7hvzsvt2DAxXlEVkFHbblA8YQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=%22chinese%20quarter%22&f=false" target="_blank">Harper’s Weekly</a></i>, November 22, 1890, page 908</div><div style="text-align: center;">20 Mott Street at far left</div><div><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bcaCvUqPn7rj5WfVhO11JprU0dbri8LB0vcw8n5BkSiFycJdvByp9ijQTDE5y-2j5yh8ycYS-JBkcxBkYT4PZkLkYxHU56WJpGRsQJIBCIHarImKBd622sf2sloDpxM9xxVWvgkPuSM4ADPteEgO2vG95LUmxSZ1vRwHbJ7u8HhH5Pj_doNrlLMv18o/s1612/1910_03_31%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1612" data-original-width="1057" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bcaCvUqPn7rj5WfVhO11JprU0dbri8LB0vcw8n5BkSiFycJdvByp9ijQTDE5y-2j5yh8ycYS-JBkcxBkYT4PZkLkYxHU56WJpGRsQJIBCIHarImKBd622sf2sloDpxM9xxVWvgkPuSM4ADPteEgO2vG95LUmxSZ1vRwHbJ7u8HhH5Pj_doNrlLMv18o/w264-h400/1910_03_31%20Mott%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%2001.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><div>20 Mott Street, fourth building from the right;</div><div>date unknown</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Further Viewing</b></div><div></div><div><a href="https://viewing.nyc/vintage-photograph-showing-mott-street-in-chinatown-circa-1900/" target="_blank">Viewing NYC</a>, 20 Mott Street, three-story building in middle of the block; colored version <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWere/comments/suhuvs/mott_street_chinatown_new_york_c_1900/" target="_blank">here</a></div><div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_puck_1914-11-28_76_1969/page/n11/mode/2up?q=%22made+in+Mott+street%22" target="_blank">Puck</a></i>, November 28, 1914, 20 Mott Street at far left</div></div><div><div><a href="https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2021/11/19/nbspchinese-buildings-in-chinatown" target="_blank">NYC Department of Records & Information Services</a>, 20 Mott Street, 1937</div><div><a href="https://mocanyc.pastperfectonline.com/Photo/42CA470A-BF56-42D5-9C82-328514201316" target="_blank">Museum of Chinese in America</a>, 20 Mott Street, 1939</div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uY9njnuRejcC&pg=PA55&dq=%22china+lane%22+mott+street&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjC9aPP3t2DAxV5EGIAHdOBAqQQ6AF6BAgFEAI#v=onepage&q=%22china%20lane%22&f=false" target="_blank">Manhattan’s Chinatown</a></i> (2008), 20 Mott Street</div></div><div><a href="http://www.nychinatown.org/storefronts/mott/20mott.html" target="_blank">A Journey Through Chinatown</a>, 20 Mott Street</div><div>Woey Sin Low, San Francisco: <a href="https://demospectator.tumblr.com/post/652571428376412160/3002-balcony-of-the-chinese-restaurant-dupont" target="_blank">Through a Chinese American Lens</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUu_uqM8Bto" target="_blank">YouTube</a></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Related Posts</b></div><div><a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2019/05/advertising-chinese-restaurant-1966.html" target="_blank">Chinese Restaurant, 1966</a></div><div><a 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target="_blank">Woey Sin Low, New York Chinatown Restaurant</a>)</div>Alex Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-11482443784323762062024-02-05T08:00:00.077-05:002024-02-10T08:01:57.772-05:00Film: George Lee in “Ten Times Better”<div><br /></div><div>George Lee is the subject of “<a href="https://www.tentimesbetterfilm.com" target="_blank">Ten Times Better</a>” by Jennifer Lin. </div><div>The <a href="https://www.filmlinc.org/films/classical-combinations/ " target="_blank">documentary’s world premiere</a> will be February 10, 2024</div><div>at Film at Lincoln Center: <a href="https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/dance-on-camera-festival/" target="_blank">Dance on Camera Festival</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>New York Public Library, Works and Process Presents: </div><div>“<a href="https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2024/02/07/works-and-process-presents-spill-tea-george-lee" target="_blank">Spill the Tea with George Lee</a>”, February 7, 2024</div><div>Lee in a conversation with Jennifer Lin and Arlene Yu</div><div><br /></div></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/04/arts/dance/balanchine-nutcracker-the-original-tea.html" target="_blank"><i>The New York Time</i>s</a>, February 4, 2024</div><div>“From Ballet to Blackjack, a Dance Pioneer’s Amazing Odyssey”</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Playbill</i>, “Flower Drum Song”, Broadway</div><div>December 1, 1958, opening night</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3CeFv_IqsL7gfcrU-PHp33H61qvutOsY2C2K2lzd4s7to7Cr_DerunZQ4yWc414mIg32hqUfc4uMaJ4O6DtdJugBbPQNrfXOYvNkp-A2QVe7pzHexPdFxCjNMO5lb2FLRdQlWCOmvejGh/s1600/1958_12_01+New+York+FDS+01.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1173" height="400" 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Lin</div><div><i><a href=" https://buckscountyherald.com/stories/doylestowns-documentary-filmmaker-jennifer-lin-tells-story-of-refugee-george-lee-turned-ballet-prodigy,35855" target="_blank">Bucks County Herald</a></i> (Pennsylvania), January 25, 2024, “Doylestown’s Lin tells story of refugee-turned ballet prodigy”</div><div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4nazIZx4c" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, Conversations on Dance: The story of George Lee, the original Tea in Balanchine’s ‘Nutcracker’, with Jennifer Lin</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Next post on Saturday: <a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2024/02/happy-lunar-new-year.html" target="_blank">Happy Lunar New Year</a>)</div><div><br /></div>Alex Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-57906512716880092932024-01-31T08:00:00.173-05:002024-02-05T08:54:23.015-05:00Victor Ing, Printer, Watercolorist and Graphic Designer<div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Victor Arksing Ing was born on July 27, 1924, in Canton, China, according to his World War II draft card and Social Security application (transcribed at Ancestry.com). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYS0cM0OGk8u4LGI8yo7KpTwmyzvB88UKeQGLhZj8ZSmMxYzMGY05RoHObhd5XzRqS8TgmUuNxdVIKeQlCcoIPyf2r8TYX7o_O1Wr4d46zOd4sljr5U2ouRB95JraNYobvQ8GYy8zKIEMQCwRnjDOARu7UMXwxN1lGvPhk01uy4om8SL0ESuLO4qzEAL4/s1811/Victor%20Ing%20Social%20Security%20Application.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1341" data-original-width="1811" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYS0cM0OGk8u4LGI8yo7KpTwmyzvB88UKeQGLhZj8ZSmMxYzMGY05RoHObhd5XzRqS8TgmUuNxdVIKeQlCcoIPyf2r8TYX7o_O1Wr4d46zOd4sljr5U2ouRB95JraNYobvQ8GYy8zKIEMQCwRnjDOARu7UMXwxN1lGvPhk01uy4om8SL0ESuLO4qzEAL4/w400-h297/Victor%20Ing%20Social%20Security%20Application.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">A passenger list said Ing (line 8) was 15 years old when he departed from Hong Kong on November 11, 1938. He sailed aboard the steamship Empress of Japan which arrived in the port of Vancouver, British Columbia on November 29. He transferred to the steamship Princess Marguerite which took him to Seattle, Washington the same day. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7jYUgVl8JJoNY2ht_NrfPYndp-5vkbWN_wNMlA1dgfFYZ9DEKmg17uh46Af-iKl2AnSbbaofyuGJ1R04od9akUmG-vGTRItW3VghJz3QL7WsIxNB73RU9Jw3pfiI9_P0VCHoMxAvi7c94-6RU7UGU86On-0lN6zTsMkEX3PM08GWADHTUWTNVF52MDMU/s1978/1938_11_11%20Ark%20Sing%20Ng%20Passenger%20List%20L8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1801" data-original-width="1978" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7jYUgVl8JJoNY2ht_NrfPYndp-5vkbWN_wNMlA1dgfFYZ9DEKmg17uh46Af-iKl2AnSbbaofyuGJ1R04od9akUmG-vGTRItW3VghJz3QL7WsIxNB73RU9Jw3pfiI9_P0VCHoMxAvi7c94-6RU7UGU86On-0lN6zTsMkEX3PM08GWADHTUWTNVF52MDMU/w400-h365/1938_11_11%20Ark%20Sing%20Ng%20Passenger%20List%20L8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDstkv6a0nTLyUN7MNdV0I0l9Vpkov7AoABC7fA0Gq_DOiXZrc5z5C1GPEfqIECyYIhGssZ_CRpCC5lQvhyphenhyphen4cvBPaH7gJKrwWSw4yXpy_t6ul52rAqrJ5YU2TTk2KHGNwySl5e-xFqyXsKyNUq9ZV4T1-PiEY4AYvhc6O4MX5SO_A2fnrlj1HKX6GdA3k/s1979/1938_11_29%20Ark%20Sing%20Ng%20Passenger%20List%20L8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1795" data-original-width="1979" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDstkv6a0nTLyUN7MNdV0I0l9Vpkov7AoABC7fA0Gq_DOiXZrc5z5C1GPEfqIECyYIhGssZ_CRpCC5lQvhyphenhyphen4cvBPaH7gJKrwWSw4yXpy_t6ul52rAqrJ5YU2TTk2KHGNwySl5e-xFqyXsKyNUq9ZV4T1-PiEY4AYvhc6O4MX5SO_A2fnrlj1HKX6GdA3k/w400-h364/1938_11_29%20Ark%20Sing%20Ng%20Passenger%20List%20L8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ing entered the United States as Ark Sing Ng who said he was born in “Hoy Ping” (Kaiping). His parents were Ng Dong and Jue Shee. Ing was assigned Chinese Exclusion Act case file number 7030 11726. Below are selected pages from his file.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NXIQdcnsOoMoGwPXxhULhG2_lpRfpKZ47X5yY1ZiA4snBBHvQLbEMw0pmEpIQlEHKCG4vxA-mhGWmoj7yL1Nm_x8RdkSbviK1lWRO8X9NEDOixyKw_hkKXlB_LVjjwFlrIXCxSpjv8Xqv3b7KLyMYHGBGLfs0E07ZkgaXVG9Zfsu_FEksYGLboxEYk4/s3938/1938_08_11%20Ng%20Ark%20Sing%207030:11726.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3938" data-original-width="2388" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NXIQdcnsOoMoGwPXxhULhG2_lpRfpKZ47X5yY1ZiA4snBBHvQLbEMw0pmEpIQlEHKCG4vxA-mhGWmoj7yL1Nm_x8RdkSbviK1lWRO8X9NEDOixyKw_hkKXlB_LVjjwFlrIXCxSpjv8Xqv3b7KLyMYHGBGLfs0E07ZkgaXVG9Zfsu_FEksYGLboxEYk4/w242-h400/1938_08_11%20Ng%20Ark%20Sing%207030:11726.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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He was a student at Englewood High School. Ing’s description was five feet ten inches, 135 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHO3qYEAuYZ0ekWSnGXfJ3YOaZQkytDYphTG1AcYMDUf2XJLg-rb5B2itSCbRUBxKHOjjJ4Xg3yc4xNSzBqpkdaPHoB3x17K9ni9uvhumCZNu1EbTAsW9cZllVRdqwy5_9RP4oRh8_eDuwxAM-ewmReioMC8BKyXkP1CwzUvTZ57CAxpNziOQoR36XWbs/s1792/1942_12_12%20Victor%20Arksing%20Ing%20WWII%20Draft%20Card%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="1792" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHO3qYEAuYZ0ekWSnGXfJ3YOaZQkytDYphTG1AcYMDUf2XJLg-rb5B2itSCbRUBxKHOjjJ4Xg3yc4xNSzBqpkdaPHoB3x17K9ni9uvhumCZNu1EbTAsW9cZllVRdqwy5_9RP4oRh8_eDuwxAM-ewmReioMC8BKyXkP1CwzUvTZ57CAxpNziOQoR36XWbs/w400-h268/1942_12_12%20Victor%20Arksing%20Ing%20WWII%20Draft%20Card%2001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ing’s veteran’s file, at Ancestry.com, said he served in the Army from August 1, 1946 to January 31, 1948. It’s not known what his duties were or where he served. At the time of his discharge, Ing was a corporal.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcp6CrsbgnmPYdkdHReP0LCpnAD6mA-QC2IFmQ4T8Cvg1HPHQ8IICVXlzFu5uSQQWHSSJLErQKGzoW6pKqq43kVq4CT6au2Jt3qC8WH85E8p8v9Q33ZQYdDKXnzBMg1_LqFGaTOcIE9ftlshNgt4xe7GR-EO7mWyAvBhtvZb2YhbNdcQ6dAdtZmrYLX7o/s1625/Victor%20Ing%20VA%20File.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1191" data-original-width="1625" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcp6CrsbgnmPYdkdHReP0LCpnAD6mA-QC2IFmQ4T8Cvg1HPHQ8IICVXlzFu5uSQQWHSSJLErQKGzoW6pKqq43kVq4CT6au2Jt3qC8WH85E8p8v9Q33ZQYdDKXnzBMg1_LqFGaTOcIE9ftlshNgt4xe7GR-EO7mWyAvBhtvZb2YhbNdcQ6dAdtZmrYLX7o/w400-h294/Victor%20Ing%20VA%20File.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the 1950 census, Ing (line 25) was a Chicago resident at 1111 East 61st Street. He was a printer and operated his own business. At the time, Ing had completed two years of college. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAZVMR_q-59SR96_okFiNG0l3vYVE28iVjwQvo1iC69aGGOjxoDX_VpcekARpAoMe5dlJ6kgHD6GrQOnKp_YWed2QwKAmnAiHvtd3ve-cMo7b47KOnJbrT30CF1JzZLv0Xn6XPne3AqK7sPI-bLF_NJJcIuXIm4oZ51Dle6QEUAaSzw1EiPVPXsQbtkxE/s4331/1950%20Victor%20A%20Ing%20Census%20L25.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4331" data-original-width="3555" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAZVMR_q-59SR96_okFiNG0l3vYVE28iVjwQvo1iC69aGGOjxoDX_VpcekARpAoMe5dlJ6kgHD6GrQOnKp_YWed2QwKAmnAiHvtd3ve-cMo7b47KOnJbrT30CF1JzZLv0Xn6XPne3AqK7sPI-bLF_NJJcIuXIm4oZ51Dle6QEUAaSzw1EiPVPXsQbtkxE/w329-h400/1950%20Victor%20A%20Ing%20Census%20L25.jpg" width="329" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ing and Winifred Eng married on December 24, 1951. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to an American Watercolor Society label, Ing graduated from Art Institute of Chicago; he attended the University of Illinois, University of Chicago, and the <a href="https://bulletin.iit.edu/graduate/colleges/design/" target="_blank">Illinois Institute of Technology</a>’s School of Design. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPneQWrcOlOMu6T6Ry9hju9AzabFcvCLII28PVgTei7X5Ubn5idUNxezx5M9sYVzJj0mwcbbAxuB6cdaL1ftdd_LApOpQKvrzoQchh39aY2yR2HEyOWOZm0kpCkzVfleoW4aIr04w6i8hCKjSXNtuNox9rRfveGS2APakCdhS5F3NqIJw7bDiXXHC7JS8/s3505/Victor%20Ing%20AWS%20Label.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3505" data-original-width="1349" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPneQWrcOlOMu6T6Ry9hju9AzabFcvCLII28PVgTei7X5Ubn5idUNxezx5M9sYVzJj0mwcbbAxuB6cdaL1ftdd_LApOpQKvrzoQchh39aY2yR2HEyOWOZm0kpCkzVfleoW4aIr04w6i8hCKjSXNtuNox9rRfveGS2APakCdhS5F3NqIJw7bDiXXHC7JS8/w246-h640/Victor%20Ing%20AWS%20Label.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apparently Ing’s earliest exhibit was in 1955. The <i>Chicago Daily News</i>, February 4, 1955, noted the show at Mandel’s.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mandel’s art gallery under its director Jennie Purvin has the distinction of showing the work of young to relatively unknown Chicago artists. Occasionally work of top merit comes to light.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The current exhibit consists of the work of John McNee who came to Chicago five years ago from California, Victor Ing who recently graduated from the Art Institute and Jean Plaut who is just beginning to exhibit.</span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ing found employment in commercial art. <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_art-direction_1958-07_10_4/page/n89/mode/2up" target="_blank">Art Direction</a></i>, July 1958, named two employers. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Victor Ing joins Bruce Beck Design </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Designer and painter Victor Ing has rejoined <a href="https://chicagodesignarchive.org/firm/bruce-beck-design" target="_blank">Bruce Beck Design</a> after a period with <a href="https://chicagodesignarchive.org/designer/morton-goldsholl" target="_blank">Morton Goldsholl Design</a>. Ing is a member of STA, a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has studied at the Institute of Design, and the University of Chicago. His watercolors have appeared in numerous exhibits and are part of many private collections.</span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuUNbjCcmOwjAlPyT2Kv-4gU3bQQPkDzXpXWdjcCkt11G361gM8zBIonkC1d02-x09CPISFhdrwOgpbwOUFWK1xl97kh0i2lF5CvwwpF5qILFX09kTEWXzL1k6hBpMZErFFIJ8lEhvcpiA5Yky-MMpjcwL_qllpkAXSZESU6maDw-HGCKY78Nc3y5CW-M/s1117/1958_07%20Victor%20Ing%20Art%20Direction%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1117" data-original-width="634" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuUNbjCcmOwjAlPyT2Kv-4gU3bQQPkDzXpXWdjcCkt11G361gM8zBIonkC1d02-x09CPISFhdrwOgpbwOUFWK1xl97kh0i2lF5CvwwpF5qILFX09kTEWXzL1k6hBpMZErFFIJ8lEhvcpiA5Yky-MMpjcwL_qllpkAXSZESU6maDw-HGCKY78Nc3y5CW-M/w228-h400/1958_07%20Victor%20Ing%20Art%20Direction%2002.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s not known how long Ing was at the Beck studio. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ing was a member of the <a href="https://typographicarts.org" target="_blank">Society of Typographic Arts</a>. <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_art-direction_1959-06_11_3/page/n97/mode/2up?q=%22Victor+Ing%22" target="_blank">Art Direction</a></i>, June 1959, listed Ing and others who did the installation of the STA exhibition. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ing had some involvement with the <a href="https://archive.org/details/HydeParkHistory1939to1976/page/n29/mode/2up?q=%22ing+victor%22" target="_blank">Hyde Park Art Center</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ing’s exhibition announcement was reproduced in <i>American Artist</i>, September 1960. His announcement was selected for the book, <i>Advertising Art: International 1961/62</i>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0avMXuj_LsDWbN8orsQQluNqtsoMHBkwOkTxtw_pOFNj32NjlHF6ST6ZzGH9ZSScmWtoT3MKUlPT1PJDmifIwLi90YD5D_SmCJrXMlTU-TOlSmPDZDqK-yc1t-S2fkvD9xlkGoICan6VHL_-rMo0_R531yC1dncdKusr3_LtyqlsDD-qsmCWoISMYSkA/s2155/1960_09%20Victor%20Ing%20American%20Artist.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="2155" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0avMXuj_LsDWbN8orsQQluNqtsoMHBkwOkTxtw_pOFNj32NjlHF6ST6ZzGH9ZSScmWtoT3MKUlPT1PJDmifIwLi90YD5D_SmCJrXMlTU-TOlSmPDZDqK-yc1t-S2fkvD9xlkGoICan6VHL_-rMo0_R531yC1dncdKusr3_LtyqlsDD-qsmCWoISMYSkA/w400-h183/1960_09%20Victor%20Ing%20American%20Artist.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1968, Ing was elected to membership in the <a href="https://americanwatercolorsociety.org" target="_blank">American Watercolor Society</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book, <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/acrylicwatercolo0000blak/page/60/mode/2up?q=%22victor+ing%22" target="_blank">Acrylic Watercolor Painting</a></i> (1970), featured Ing’s “Winter Trees”. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">During the 1970s and 1980s, Ing’s watercolors of various birds were represented in the American Artists Group Christmas card catalogs. The samples below appeared in newspapers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga9kA025GpE4Q5Z0oljP3LCRJoDxOzDEEfkBnpx3IoxPwLPJqClINK1JC6cgo-jlxEVkuwEGt-CSMNZkR1QfYDkEI7uTiZJy7KFv5SvhVbydEQBj5U6ZKli3W4Pbqtmrv2cGJyT-zIkn45bJmYf483Ue9BJGQyXCJ1QiEjRQk_7nfnc9DVuMu2e5Vsf2o/s2517/1970_11_22%20Victor%20Ing%20Christmas%20Card.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="2517" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga9kA025GpE4Q5Z0oljP3LCRJoDxOzDEEfkBnpx3IoxPwLPJqClINK1JC6cgo-jlxEVkuwEGt-CSMNZkR1QfYDkEI7uTiZJy7KFv5SvhVbydEQBj5U6ZKli3W4Pbqtmrv2cGJyT-zIkn45bJmYf483Ue9BJGQyXCJ1QiEjRQk_7nfnc9DVuMu2e5Vsf2o/w400-h209/1970_11_22%20Victor%20Ing%20Christmas%20Card.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>1970</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7eeQbcjjzf0kBpRu2TKxFEcR-BkN8A-h3sbIP5lmZG7Sj0FjvzPv26LS-rPpbZqM5L5IC6ymPQwqrYR-Bpf6k5ZN9mv3YBslVRekCi-gfspaUrxJgqoWG4e1TVan8eZ-pZCV5uUMalBIZ1okEJSUaExtlEkK61kU6yQoLAumsRW7eklwYrXBzKC8YQQ/s2957/1972_11_15%20Victor%20Ing%20Christmas%20Card.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2957" data-original-width="1575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7eeQbcjjzf0kBpRu2TKxFEcR-BkN8A-h3sbIP5lmZG7Sj0FjvzPv26LS-rPpbZqM5L5IC6ymPQwqrYR-Bpf6k5ZN9mv3YBslVRekCi-gfspaUrxJgqoWG4e1TVan8eZ-pZCV5uUMalBIZ1okEJSUaExtlEkK61kU6yQoLAumsRW7eklwYrXBzKC8YQQ/s320/1972_11_15%20Victor%20Ing%20Christmas%20Card.jpg" width="170" /></a></div>1972</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq7YHXzIkAvtcqzJ_BPPLApx1QInoVG-_Fj7s-JCA2nq8H4ElC_55jb7lj7p7L3h1_Hr5Vh21VJybOROKy-nolEHJI9_Zv50_cMAdGIhn46zy6QWpUU9hrp6K1Sy7oEkwfgp02FaoLd0i74W51CAyTah6B8d8nPYx0UWOWym8oW_HuHUiPbtROlEo7gqo/s1870/1973_12_11%20Victor%20Ing%20Christmas%20Card.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1111" data-original-width="1870" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq7YHXzIkAvtcqzJ_BPPLApx1QInoVG-_Fj7s-JCA2nq8H4ElC_55jb7lj7p7L3h1_Hr5Vh21VJybOROKy-nolEHJI9_Zv50_cMAdGIhn46zy6QWpUU9hrp6K1Sy7oEkwfgp02FaoLd0i74W51CAyTah6B8d8nPYx0UWOWym8oW_HuHUiPbtROlEo7gqo/w400-h239/1973_12_11%20Victor%20Ing%20Christmas%20Card.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>1973<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div>Ing’s watercolor, “Roses”, was entered in the <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogofco1972326711libr/page/258/mode/2up?q=%22victor+ing%22" target="_blank">Catalog of Copyright Entries</a></i>, Third Series, Volume 26, Parts 7–11A, Number 2, Works of Art, July–December 1972. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Airguide Instrument Co.</div><div>Roses. [Two long-stemmed; barometer] Model 1107. Watercolor by Victor Ing. Lithograph of painting. Signed: V. Ing. © Airguide Instrument Co.; 5Oct72; GP82165.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlSEg7FVaTc4t1aNyOQhMz5GxUh0BRa0Pnd3qjlHWKxzRWF595XMBbJiGwwlL30cq2oEsyp-XUqoHt6pI2-GkQK1tpkx4109_0AXzmw7GHds2HhHv06E5pHuLej6tIyiisLOR6bmx-tI6Qgkf1lN3N7BmDbLX4797HdcqOGoCRyW67O9DYi1AGDt-PQBw/s1790/1972%20Victor%20Ing%20Airguide%2001a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1790" data-original-width="983" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlSEg7FVaTc4t1aNyOQhMz5GxUh0BRa0Pnd3qjlHWKxzRWF595XMBbJiGwwlL30cq2oEsyp-XUqoHt6pI2-GkQK1tpkx4109_0AXzmw7GHds2HhHv06E5pHuLej6tIyiisLOR6bmx-tI6Qgkf1lN3N7BmDbLX4797HdcqOGoCRyW67O9DYi1AGDt-PQBw/s320/1972%20Victor%20Ing%20Airguide%2001a.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwCkOFJVCYXRoa0kyMk3WbQOFtfyw1Jie-JOvdeQ6RoU9Cvo9QWIPiyEl_LZXFtNtJV2cf9mOrpVtYbzFZnBSk4CmJ2WQLHgyhp98lQa-it-H936rhcVR1OeHW6Y_MRQCmffl-7nFbHuny8t8iw5QtuQwzNjtk8dDJFN8T2hrko1RVA-tUYOkyh0WRR9o/s1806/1972%20Victor%20Ing%20Airguide%2001b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1806" data-original-width="983" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwCkOFJVCYXRoa0kyMk3WbQOFtfyw1Jie-JOvdeQ6RoU9Cvo9QWIPiyEl_LZXFtNtJV2cf9mOrpVtYbzFZnBSk4CmJ2WQLHgyhp98lQa-it-H936rhcVR1OeHW6Y_MRQCmffl-7nFbHuny8t8iw5QtuQwzNjtk8dDJFN8T2hrko1RVA-tUYOkyh0WRR9o/s320/1972%20Victor%20Ing%20Airguide%2001b.jpg" width="174" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRik1PpHVhZUwsXhj-WmG5JKfrJHr1lmSvDmhVc7P_fYMZO7RZQY9ZjPK_tQHN6KP7__GX8SytWriD8MvtrngOEUGFiXMFtS4Dfra0utJwUlMEtXEWWzms6oHgtAPKZv2evZsBbxjgAIwZWA3wbIXHs04bfwW7CL3VUqgfDZClps2EMYUgvpJ_2K4_NY0/s2696/1972%20Victor%20Ing%20Airguide%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="2696" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRik1PpHVhZUwsXhj-WmG5JKfrJHr1lmSvDmhVc7P_fYMZO7RZQY9ZjPK_tQHN6KP7__GX8SytWriD8MvtrngOEUGFiXMFtS4Dfra0utJwUlMEtXEWWzms6oHgtAPKZv2evZsBbxjgAIwZWA3wbIXHs04bfwW7CL3VUqgfDZClps2EMYUgvpJ_2K4_NY0/w400-h160/1972%20Victor%20Ing%20Airguide%2002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTCIsUVHfZiUCHsKDp7zBIGWF88pi0Hp1R0gvojQBjBZO7IYL4lQn8gAmaA4OownL6rYBXkUP6S8iM-T8Z39fRqRJk7ASvuDoypyqjSUuxE7D7BHUzdmU3krFZ9LqrQWaAXnfPWfmD3OF3lyQ3xD3iSwPo0Qi2dJoZQ-XWcwDqsk1AbfRnZl5jzhhMfT0/s2322/1972%20Victor%20Ing%20Airguide%2003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2322" data-original-width="814" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTCIsUVHfZiUCHsKDp7zBIGWF88pi0Hp1R0gvojQBjBZO7IYL4lQn8gAmaA4OownL6rYBXkUP6S8iM-T8Z39fRqRJk7ASvuDoypyqjSUuxE7D7BHUzdmU3krFZ9LqrQWaAXnfPWfmD3OF3lyQ3xD3iSwPo0Qi2dJoZQ-XWcwDqsk1AbfRnZl5jzhhMfT0/w226-h640/1972%20Victor%20Ing%20Airguide%2003.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">7 x 20.25 inches</div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The <i>State Journal-Register</i>, (Springfield, Illinois), May 19, 1988, reported the upcoming 27th annual <a href="https://www.springfieldoldcapitolartfair.org" target="_blank">Old Capitol Art Fair</a>. Ing was one of five artists who had exhibited at the <span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 16px;">previous</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> 26 fairs. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ing passed away on November 20, 1997, in Niles, Illinois. The <i><a href=" https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-11-23-9711230299-story.html" target="_blank">Chicago Tribune</a></i>, November 23, 1997, published an obituary. Ing was laid to rest at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161985342/victor-a.-ing" target="_blank">Saint Peters United Church of Christ Cemetery</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Further Reading</b></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/newsrounds19701970rush/page/n57/mode/2up" target="_blank">NewsRounds</a></i>, December 1970</div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/newsrounds19711971rush/page/n121/mode/2up" target="_blank">NewsRounds</a></i>, December 1971</div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/newsrounds19731973rush/page/n123/mode/2up?q=%22Victor+Ing%22" target="_blank">NewsRounds</a></i>, November 1973</div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/newsrounds19781978rush_0/page/28/mode/2up" target="_blank">NewsRounds</a></i>, November 1978, photograph</div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/newsrounds19781978rush_0/page/38/mode/2up?q=%22Victor+Ing%22" target="_blank">NewsRounds</a></i>, December 1978</div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/newsrounds19831983rush/page/60/mode/2up?q=%22Victor+Ing%22" target="_blank">NewsRounds</a></i>, November 1983</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Next post on Monday: <a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2024/02/film-george-lee-in-ten-times-better.html" target="_blank">George Lee in “Ten Times Better”</a>)</span></div><div><br /></div>Alex Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-84303336034309162082024-01-24T08:00:00.007-05:002024-02-24T17:40:40.352-05:00Comics: The Chinese as Interplanetary Immigrants<div><i><a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/154378/" target="_blank">Space Adventures</a></i> #26, December 1958</div><div>“<a href="https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=4562&page=9" target="_blank">The Men from Hsin-Chiu</a>”, art by Steve Ditko,</div><div>co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhunh1rqfN9GgYeJS6QVixl_JeGtxo-SqqGGqSRw-uBqiOfTj20w1WYOBTp8l-_icVqyGj1i8VlqAnUC2wORv2foi-KtSrhdoNKb1EjKrpr-JBAB1JAJdSvFzx4sZb6PzN-cZt_PskAE-I2lAB-55w4owZ7bqmRhVAgD8Lgjkp4VlNo7oLbClDxWJFEGPk/s1338/1973_Winter%20Mike%20Chen%20FOOM%20%234a.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1338" data-original-width="975" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhunh1rqfN9GgYeJS6QVixl_JeGtxo-SqqGGqSRw-uBqiOfTj20w1WYOBTp8l-_icVqyGj1i8VlqAnUC2wORv2foi-KtSrhdoNKb1EjKrpr-JBAB1JAJdSvFzx4sZb6PzN-cZt_PskAE-I2lAB-55w4owZ7bqmRhVAgD8Lgjkp4VlNo7oLbClDxWJFEGPk/w291-h400/1973_Winter%20Mike%20Chen%20FOOM%20%234a.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Selected Art Samples</b></div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/37634/#219424" target="_blank">Lancelot Strong, The Shield</a></i> #2, August 1983</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZDAFUzia6_FAThn2ll5qeX4sjiK4U9C9a1XVyyBLcJh0p7VdCi9jKzhvN36aVoVlTTuqx5qzwNenPZJlM3JGfSFQY6ohVXjLkB1FDJUTZ9gYPCMHfr-ad9vB0vh8oPx2fRr8efSnPBr0HtmZ-KrJoucH0tZaQx7oG5V7deBynMy9Q1Qsn3F7GSXJeHuc/s3004/1984_11%20Starriors%20%231.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3004" data-original-width="1970" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZDAFUzia6_FAThn2ll5qeX4sjiK4U9C9a1XVyyBLcJh0p7VdCi9jKzhvN36aVoVlTTuqx5qzwNenPZJlM3JGfSFQY6ohVXjLkB1FDJUTZ9gYPCMHfr-ad9vB0vh8oPx2fRr8efSnPBr0HtmZ-KrJoucH0tZaQx7oG5V7deBynMy9Q1Qsn3F7GSXJeHuc/w264-h400/1984_11%20Starriors%20%231.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/75969/" target="_blank">Starriors</a></i> #2, December 1984</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivecsAInHjUJqzlVAzHBsQfTmAzE-a1nGKyJMZRWcr1SQLzovGH1zfTmjuZib-QpQF6Ld-z0cRVcDXMpgE6oNDWg7U2NjHopoKSIRgMwsfgnrDR1SqPGkK55yzSrSmAXFZF7hXn1Kd9il2sw7s8-hT3b9CTBhnBANvOp_tz_wHndhm6FIXInIr5Zbm3NM/s3005/1984_12%20Michael%20Chen%20New%20Talent%20Showcase%20%2312%2001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3005" data-original-width="1952" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivecsAInHjUJqzlVAzHBsQfTmAzE-a1nGKyJMZRWcr1SQLzovGH1zfTmjuZib-QpQF6Ld-z0cRVcDXMpgE6oNDWg7U2NjHopoKSIRgMwsfgnrDR1SqPGkK55yzSrSmAXFZF7hXn1Kd9il2sw7s8-hT3b9CTBhnBANvOp_tz_wHndhm6FIXInIr5Zbm3NM/w260-h400/1984_12%20Michael%20Chen%20New%20Talent%20Showcase%20%2312%2001.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Michael Chen was born on March 27, 1955, in Washington, D.C. <div>He graduated magna cum laude from Towson State College in </div><div>Maryland with a degree in art and, a few years later, from the </div><div>Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art. On his list </div><div>of professional credits so far, Mike boasts two issues of <i>World’s</i></div><div><i>Finest</i>, the <i>Starriors</i> mini-series from Marvel, an issue of the </div><div><i>Shield</i> for Red Circle, and an upcoming three-part back-up </div><div>series in <i>Atari Force</i> #13, 14, & 15.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0p6PLXrpQsCQDyq68AleFZabpBwnMUo4hENdjV0r4T2lTR9noLuMRVXZx5h3cM1jmU2aDknFbkuNC5wowqbGdTjgHre5Z-c1O52a9k0AsTyQJfZ2wzeQCXjKnTNPgjM1lZTtVHZyghVC2uvEaMIavMIEIDdTiW8i5-L2mWzNdMzj5_EERKX73LnSXRCY/s787/1984_12%20Michael%20Chen%20New%20Talent%20Showcase%20%2312%2008a.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="787" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0p6PLXrpQsCQDyq68AleFZabpBwnMUo4hENdjV0r4T2lTR9noLuMRVXZx5h3cM1jmU2aDknFbkuNC5wowqbGdTjgHre5Z-c1O52a9k0AsTyQJfZ2wzeQCXjKnTNPgjM1lZTtVHZyghVC2uvEaMIavMIEIDdTiW8i5-L2mWzNdMzj5_EERKX73LnSXRCY/w200-h167/1984_12%20Michael%20Chen%20New%20Talent%20Showcase%20%2312%2008a.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/atariforcecomics-216/page/n25/mode/2up" target="_blank">Atari Force</a></i> #16, April 1985</div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/coloringbook-1987-gi-joe-solaris-project/mode/2up" target="_blank">G.I. Joe Coloring Book: The Solaris Project</a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qXwFN85wWPUyZeCyA7ijq18blpPze7Qy6Xl19KnJWzcuWLLavw4jRFIf_aUxaU4FGNPPAbLC5m-L-CAUv8gcHHQOL7nYY6zVbFxp4DLsvBf80IDAkpe7dr338mbQAMpP6Y3RogrZghIuaPfj6PvMYD3xK-sOqgYPaKNo0Cv55rDXbhjRFWjLmPCGy8I/s1755/1987%20Michael%20Chen%20G.I.%20Joe%20Coloring%20Book.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1755" data-original-width="1240" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qXwFN85wWPUyZeCyA7ijq18blpPze7Qy6Xl19KnJWzcuWLLavw4jRFIf_aUxaU4FGNPPAbLC5m-L-CAUv8gcHHQOL7nYY6zVbFxp4DLsvBf80IDAkpe7dr338mbQAMpP6Y3RogrZghIuaPfj6PvMYD3xK-sOqgYPaKNo0Cv55rDXbhjRFWjLmPCGy8I/w283-h400/1987%20Michael%20Chen%20G.I.%20Joe%20Coloring%20Book.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/officialhandbook04grue/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22Michael+Chen%22" target="_blank">The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe</a></i>, </div><div>Volume 4: Karkas to Mister Fantastic; Mentallo</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1k7_Y4u-Fr1G-2zpL1xF30GbfLAB8ttGVu1xEsjVtBuplCn9YrIj5BuLBJ7zzYKEW5L2cYfdvTnu0_oiYfBTQYhtJkzOfoeU6s_XSe8-D-3pLxF74aBs6eKzqZ_Y7tsP6g5vk2zokKJdNIaeRTrH2NW-DJ5PpUUaGIII_zKarz-STM0CXe-Wp8xuDASE/s1214/1987%20Michael%20Chen%20Official%20Handbook%20of%20the%20Marvel%20Universe%20v4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1214" data-original-width="712" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1k7_Y4u-Fr1G-2zpL1xF30GbfLAB8ttGVu1xEsjVtBuplCn9YrIj5BuLBJ7zzYKEW5L2cYfdvTnu0_oiYfBTQYhtJkzOfoeU6s_XSe8-D-3pLxF74aBs6eKzqZ_Y7tsP6g5vk2zokKJdNIaeRTrH2NW-DJ5PpUUaGIII_zKarz-STM0CXe-Wp8xuDASE/s320/1987%20Michael%20Chen%20Official%20Handbook%20of%20the%20Marvel%20Universe%20v4.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>20th Annual San Diego Comic-Con </div><div>Convention Events Guide, <a href="https://archive.org/details/sdcc-events-1989/page/20/mode/2up?q=%22mike+chen%22" target="_blank">Artists’ Alley</a></div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/nationalcartooni0000unse/page/66/mode/2up" target="_blank">The National Cartoonists Society Album 1996</a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwckznWCRYer40-WbhFy1ZG-0UTk67Sp6KESepWKc3H39ZFyzeJqwd2Pj_wkvi2rSmnCbuJsDkEgkI1gqDEpcYiknA0k-3DZsIhPK-YuSwhi2cix62UuxxxVv8hsTInw3-9iB_8fMimKncB3PL_-FwLJJcY4Bti0scBr11Dv4-Lvpz-2rDvGtMmWozt_s/s2540/1877_05_26%20Wong%20Chin%20Foo%20Harper%E2%80%99s%20Weekly%2003.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2540" data-original-width="1883" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwckznWCRYer40-WbhFy1ZG-0UTk67Sp6KESepWKc3H39ZFyzeJqwd2Pj_wkvi2rSmnCbuJsDkEgkI1gqDEpcYiknA0k-3DZsIhPK-YuSwhi2cix62UuxxxVv8hsTInw3-9iB_8fMimKncB3PL_-FwLJJcY4Bti0scBr11Dv4-Lvpz-2rDvGtMmWozt_s/w298-h400/1877_05_26%20Wong%20Chin%20Foo%20Harper%E2%80%99s%20Weekly%2003.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>SIDEBAR: About the Artist John Durkin</b></div><div>John Durkin was an artist known for his work in magazines. The date and place of his birth is not known. He passed away on May 12, 1903, in Brooklyn, New York. A <a href="https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/3992842" target="_blank">death certificate</a> said he was 43 years old (born around 1860). Newspaper reports said he was 35 years old (born around 1868) and from the West. Information about his early life and art training have not been found. At some point Durkin moved to New York City and established himself as an illustrator. </div><div><br /></div><div>So far, the earliest mention of Durkin was found in W. C. Coup’s New United Monster Shows advertisement published in the <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/per_atlanta-constitution_1882-03-29_14/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22durkin%22" target="_blank">Atlanta Constitution</a></i> (Georgia), March 29, 1882. Durkin is mentioned just below the subhead, “Assassination of Garfield”.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVgTob88mzKAHr4W10MgF-wt6hD5ZARYnEBQ5wvCn6Z0lfnAvNQEKo01eV68m10n4eMtyyOoTYq1JCNtb5Unfq3_D-KmSV43qk4442x-3d3fIhyphenhyphenMfY5lW9zbObNrhBpPncDam-GDl8ci_LWzjsSpsD4wOGU_f0K3VYdEf1QNIcJrvZ05SLGRGgG-xNAME/s1939/1882_03_29%20John%20Durkin%20Atlanta%20Constitution%20(GA)%20p5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1939" data-original-width="904" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVgTob88mzKAHr4W10MgF-wt6hD5ZARYnEBQ5wvCn6Z0lfnAvNQEKo01eV68m10n4eMtyyOoTYq1JCNtb5Unfq3_D-KmSV43qk4442x-3d3fIhyphenhyphenMfY5lW9zbObNrhBpPncDam-GDl8ci_LWzjsSpsD4wOGU_f0K3VYdEf1QNIcJrvZ05SLGRGgG-xNAME/w298-h640/1882_03_29%20John%20Durkin%20Atlanta%20Constitution%20(GA)%20p5.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=L59YMBXkAZoC&pg=PA42&dq=%22john+durkin%22+liberty&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVpeqWi4GDAxUOMVkFHSvMAZYQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q=%22john%20durkin%22%20liberty&f=false" target="_blank">Harper’s Weekly</a></i>, January 19, 1884, published Durkin’s drawing of the Statue of Liberty. </div><div><br /></div><div>The <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/per_atlanta-constitution_1885-06-20_17/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22John+durkin%22+artist" target="_blank">Atlanta Constitution</a></i>, June 20, 1885, mentioned Durkin in the last paragraph of “The New Chautauqua”.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpaK28mFNlFaP1d9Jel589OKDAcQEDeAvVlXbHI_kDKtF8O7JvVZPxZ7Z2Tjsr6F_kc7eqBUGiHcCkgTuZcD0TZUd8YBlZUQJzINjnEFqS92Cb2WnGMkju0bCuzyHWEGPuM-ouOvB7iVN_YjWbINSfKsT7i5O-CFkijlmJybU5-E1UCGyP6UV6tZ5RSM/s1261/1885_06_20%20John%20Durkin%20Atlanta%20Constitution%20(GA)%20p8.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1261" data-original-width="435" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpaK28mFNlFaP1d9Jel589OKDAcQEDeAvVlXbHI_kDKtF8O7JvVZPxZ7Z2Tjsr6F_kc7eqBUGiHcCkgTuZcD0TZUd8YBlZUQJzINjnEFqS92Cb2WnGMkju0bCuzyHWEGPuM-ouOvB7iVN_YjWbINSfKsT7i5O-CFkijlmJybU5-E1UCGyP6UV6tZ5RSM/w222-h640/1885_06_20%20John%20Durkin%20Atlanta%20Constitution%20(GA)%20p8.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>New York Herald</i>, July 19, 1885, said Durkin made “some excellent studies of Swiss architecture” in the third issue of <i>Art and Decoration</i>. </div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-weekly_1885-12-25_30_1566/page/838/mode/2up?q=%22John+Durkin%22+artist" target="_blank">Harper’s Weekly</a></i>, December 25, 1885, reported the trip by several writers and artists, including Durkin, to the South. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>The New South.</div><div>The gentlemen who on behalf of the publishing house of Harper & Brothers have recently made a prolonged excursion in the Southern States returned a few days ago with the most delightful impressions of their journey. The party, which made the tour on the invitation and as the guests of Mr. John H. Inman, a merchant with large interests North and South, and a devoted and enterprising friend of American industries, was composed of Messrs. Charles Dudley Warner, Kirk Munroe, Charles Graham, John Durkin, Horace Bradley, and William Armitage Harper, authors and artists, and a representative of the Harper publishing house. They were received every where with a courtesy and kindness and hospitality which cannot be forgotten. The object of the visit was to see the “new South,” to observe the social, industrial, and educational changes of the last few years, in order that the actual condition of “the South” might be faithfully reported by pen and pencil, and the good feeling which springs from accurate knowledge, and which binds every part of the country more closely than ever before, may be confirmed and strengthened.</div><div><br /></div><div>For such a purpose there could be no happier selection of a leader than Mr. Warner. His trained faculty of shrewd observation, his just mind and ready sympathy, his great intelligence and large experience of travel, his tact and humor and cheeriness, which make him always a charming companion, especially fitted him for this enterprise. His companions were all animated by the same spirit, and the little private embassy, we are sure, was a very happy representation, which “the North” cannot send nor “the South” welcome without mutual advantage. The party left New York on the 2d of November, and proceeded to Lynchburg, Richmond, Danville, Atlanta, Augusta, Charleston, Knoxville, Chattanooga, South Pittsburgh, Nashville, Birmingham, Montgomery, Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg, Memphis, and Louisville. They were received with friendly warmth by the Mayors of the cities and Boards of Trade and industrial corporations and clubs and prominent citizens. In New Orleans Mr. Charles Gayarré, the historian of Louisiana, at a pleasant meeting of the municipal authorities and other citizens, made an eloquent and admirable speech of welcome, breathing the most generous national spirit blended with a just local pride. The members of the party visited, under the best auspices, the schools and colleges and mines and factories and plantations, seeing the various processes of many industries, and obtaining specific and valuable information of every kind, and they have returned with the profound conviction that the impulse of a new and healthy life has penetrated the whole frame of life and activity in those States, which will tend to make the common national life stronger and better. ...</div></blockquote><div>The <i>New York Herald</i>, January 24, 1886, covered the benefit at the Academy of Music.</div><div><blockquote>... The artists who will sketch on the stage of the Academy of Music at the Thomas benefit to-morrow afternoon are Messrs. Napoleon Sarony, Edward Moran, Charles Graham, Philip Goatcher, Charles Holm, Frank Beard, William Voeghtlin, W. H. Lippincott L. W. Seavey, Albert Operti, James A. Wales, John Rough, J. P. Byrne, John Durkin, Patrick Riley, John Mackey and Thomas Worth. There is a long list of artists and others who have contributed or loaned pictures, sketches and bric-a-brac. Messrs. D. B. Sheahar and Theodore Bauer will model in clay. The artistic body will be introduced by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. There is a long and attractive program and equally long and attractive list of doorkeepers, ushers, auctioneers, musical directors, supers and honorary committee men. Aunt Louisa Eldridge will preside at the programme table, assisted by several young ladies. ...</blockquote></div><div>Durkin was mentioned twice in the <i>New York Dispatch</i>.</div><div></div><blockquote><div>February 28, 1886</div><div>The benefit given at Philadelphia in aid of the Actors’ Fund, last week, netted $1,100. John P. Smith and Tony Pastor took over as an attraction Messrs. N. Sarony, Henry A. Thomas, Albert Operti and John Durkin, the artists, who were the most entertaining feature of the show.</div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote><div>March 28, 1886</div><div>Carll’s Opera-House, at New Haven, was thronged on Tuesday night last, on the occasion of the Elk’s benefit. The Madison Square Theatre “Saints and Sinners” Company were rapturously applauded, especially Mr. Stoddard, as the old father. A novel feature of the entertainment was the introduction, between the third and fourth acts, of “lightning sketches” by several New York artists, among them Mr. Geo. Halm, the decorator, Mr. V. Gribayedoff, Mr. John Durkin and Sig. Operti. Mr. Augustus Heckle, though not an artist by profession, made a handsome crayon drawing of Mr. Sarony.</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1886-11-09_36_10979/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22John+Durkin%22+artist" target="_blank">The New York Times</a></i>, November 9, 1886, reported the Harper & Brothers writers and artists, including Durkin, in the South. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHAdfxkWrA6ut-I5M2WF6ZbCyVec0bypDKWUK1wBTtg-2p7nhSlPzHlXo6ArBmXiPAiJbucBa0FFFlevN3gSUBoDueZGezfo8HF4sKGo-h5VlKda2kIJthFvIGEhwaaxgCcDPZyfYFoJd_5u3gBPft2Y7C-y90ZPvFSnq5qINI8yuYY7V1YgawGzZ-TQE/s1829/1886_11_09%20John%20Durkin%20New%20York%20Times%20p4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1829" data-original-width="346" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHAdfxkWrA6ut-I5M2WF6ZbCyVec0bypDKWUK1wBTtg-2p7nhSlPzHlXo6ArBmXiPAiJbucBa0FFFlevN3gSUBoDueZGezfo8HF4sKGo-h5VlKda2kIJthFvIGEhwaaxgCcDPZyfYFoJd_5u3gBPft2Y7C-y90ZPvFSnq5qINI8yuYY7V1YgawGzZ-TQE/w122-h640/1886_11_09%20John%20Durkin%20New%20York%20Times%20p4.jpg" width="122" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The front page of the <i>Daily Picayune</i> (New Orleans, Louisiana), November 29, 1886, reported the arrival of the Harper & Brothers writers and artists, who had brief introductions. </div><div><blockquote>Mr. Durkin is associated with him [Mr. Graham] in his business, and has profited by his experience and skill. Mr. Durkin is an adept in certain branches.</blockquote></div><div><i>Harper’s Weekly</i>, January 29, 1887, featured the work of the Harper & Brothers writers and artists in “<a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-weekly_1887-01-29_31_1571/page/74/mode/2up" target="_blank">The Industrial South</a>”, and “<a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-weekly_1887-01-29_31_1571/page/n15/mode/2up" target="_blank">The New South</a>”. Durkin depicted “<a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-weekly_1887-01-29_31_1571/page/88/mode/2up" target="_blank">Scenes in Virginia</a>”. </div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>Sunday Inter Ocean</i> (Chicago, Illinois), March 13, 1887, mentioned Durkin at the end of the first paragraph. He was a member of the <a href="https://archive.org/details/wilsonsphotogra04yorkgoog/page/70/mode/2up?q=%22kit+Kat+club%22" target="_blank">Kit Kat Club</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw7Z5TFLOI2BWeSXvjpURcVa3maNgpb-QHiyX9hMVocB3MPH8VC0UXFD0atEBKYP5UZJ5oW_M3zkXs12shpGoWM-ALSIxPYbxfPNMQUswZAW7LItudx2CEbsTD_CS9uO26s-jCYm7y7H0myk93wUsFd0jQH89WZaRMv67qSNs_JLQsqFC15SbdUttsXmw/s4898/1887_03_13%20John%20Durkin%20Sunday%20Inter%20Ocean%20(Chicago%20IL)%20s3%20p1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4898" data-original-width="1104" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw7Z5TFLOI2BWeSXvjpURcVa3maNgpb-QHiyX9hMVocB3MPH8VC0UXFD0atEBKYP5UZJ5oW_M3zkXs12shpGoWM-ALSIxPYbxfPNMQUswZAW7LItudx2CEbsTD_CS9uO26s-jCYm7y7H0myk93wUsFd0jQH89WZaRMv67qSNs_JLQsqFC15SbdUttsXmw/w146-h640/1887_03_13%20John%20Durkin%20Sunday%20Inter%20Ocean%20(Chicago%20IL)%20s3%20p1.jpg" width="146" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>New York Herald</i>, December 7, 1887, said </div><div><blockquote>In the concert room Sarony, Edward Moran, Charles Graham, H.A. Thomas, Hughson Hawley, L. W. Soavey, J. W. Rough and John Durkin made crayon sketches for the audience, which were sold as soon as finished. Operti drew splendid likenesses of Grand Master F. B. Lawrence and of General Secretary Ehlers. Artist Beard could not be present, and sent a painting of a dog’s head as his contribution</blockquote></div><div>Durkin was in the 1888 catalogue of the <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/1888AWS/page/n69/mode/2up" target="_blank">Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of the American Water Color Society</a></i>. </div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>New York Evening World</i>, June 19, 1888, said “John Durkin, the artist, will summer in the Berkshire hills.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>New York Daily Graphic</i>, July 20, 1889, said</div><div></div><blockquote><div>... A group sitting just beneath the brilliant lights that surmount the roof of the garden, is known to all who are familiar with the pictures in our great magazines. The oldest of them has a face that might have been cut from a portrait gallery of the last century; clear cut, smoothly shaven, gray-haired and remarkably handsome for an old man, is Walter Pelham, the artist and humorist.</div><div><br /></div><div>Near him, intently studying the bubbles in his beer glass, is a short, slender, and restless young man, whose face would suggest a theological student rather than an artist. An artist he is, however, and one of a very high order, as all know who have seen John Durkin’s drawings in our great monthlies. ...</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_cosmopolitan_1891-08_11_4/page/480/mode/2up?q=%22John+Durkin%22+artist" target="_blank">The Cosmopolitan</a></i>, August 1891, said </div><div><blockquote>... Without going outside of New York I could point out a score of men who deserve more than a passing mention. As pure manipulators of the ‘outline,’ Messrs. Coultaus and Kerr of the Herald have attained a high degree of proficiency, while Messrs. Knickerbocker and Weill of the same paper shine as adepts at rapid composition. The Herald’s political cartoons are drawn by Mr. Hamilton of Judge. The Sun enjoys the occasional services of Mr. John Durkin, a strong character delineator, and the regular contributions of Louis D. Arata, O. H. von Gottschalk and W. A. Bertram. In the World’s columns we still find McDougall’s cartoons, faulty in drawing, but brimful of the broad humor that appeals to the masses; also the graceful drawings of Archie Gunn and the efficient all-round work of George Folsom. ...</blockquote></div><div>In 1896, Durkin illustrated Florence Warden’s <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/forgefurnacenove00ward/page/n7/mode/2up" target="_blank">Forge and Furnace</a></i>. </div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>Morning Times</i> (Washington, DC), May 17, 1896, reported the opening of the Illustrators Club.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj12gZ_HKmW5IaiDOE6Vw5LmE_5RMAUchXluByfhxMxrZkj_70VM-0XQOXLGjc94346V1lHnSDPPDHIHrxH4nbVkIKSMEvEQb78fkbwYhQkkup7_bKwKhNZBYWeMHPsNf0x8jXA6JMHDLIBVXoGU-7sAQRZpVn85HBn-xtpC1vHukPcfwAM3-EWDbGWTb8/s10809/1896_05_17%20John%20Durkin%20Morning%20Times%20(Washington%20DC)%20p19%20c2%200492.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="10809" data-original-width="3971" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj12gZ_HKmW5IaiDOE6Vw5LmE_5RMAUchXluByfhxMxrZkj_70VM-0XQOXLGjc94346V1lHnSDPPDHIHrxH4nbVkIKSMEvEQb78fkbwYhQkkup7_bKwKhNZBYWeMHPsNf0x8jXA6JMHDLIBVXoGU-7sAQRZpVn85HBn-xtpC1vHukPcfwAM3-EWDbGWTb8/w238-h640/1896_05_17%20John%20Durkin%20Morning%20Times%20(Washington%20DC)%20p19%20c2%200492.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Durkin’s death was reported in the following newspapers. </div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/543762331/?terms=%22John%20durkin%22&match=1" target="_blank">Brooklyn Citizen</a></i> (New York), May 12, 1903</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDw2xE7QLIfyQkRupWuPkNfXeTlDEgN6CFv1b9vNYCvT8xUkH120xiv6GmbxWA5Jh6hfKrrkbuXHeIPwU-ufYvGDnJLB5utmCwm8yXaRs7ysmBvUm2D1Z88sAYWspGcXlVDzvaaCff3BEo93xBqhRHmVstx5OChLtoWMxzfv9UUNbhUqbcB8JIkmAofU/s637/1903_05_12%20John%20Durkin%20Brooklyn%20Citizen%20(NY)%20p1%20c5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="637" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDw2xE7QLIfyQkRupWuPkNfXeTlDEgN6CFv1b9vNYCvT8xUkH120xiv6GmbxWA5Jh6hfKrrkbuXHeIPwU-ufYvGDnJLB5utmCwm8yXaRs7ysmBvUm2D1Z88sAYWspGcXlVDzvaaCff3BEo93xBqhRHmVstx5OChLtoWMxzfv9UUNbhUqbcB8JIkmAofU/w200-h179/1903_05_12%20John%20Durkin%20Brooklyn%20Citizen%20(NY)%20p1%20c5.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div></div><p> </p><blockquote><div>Died of Apoplexy.</div><div>A man about 35 years old and fairly well dressed, who from papers and cards in his wearing apparel was said to be John Durkin, an artist of No. 319 West Thirty-eighth street, Manhattan, died early this morning in the Eastern District Hospital, to which institution he was taken last evening suffering from apoplexy. The man was going down South Eighth street and stepped into John Gillen’s saloon. Before he could utter a word he was stricken with apoplexy. He was taken to the hospital, but never recovered consciousness.</div></blockquote><div></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Daily People</i> (New York, New York), May 13, 1903</div><div><br /></div><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOG1cxTvIpLZI2lmUTMl6qx1JXLThIzrv-nNSTlbnoA8GaUhyphenhyphen85VEAZzc1J9r9HWY789bsS2zvFEdi8o5B9mxwOeqiyXHDw872uaRjJECGetQ9r43qDbKWm1_CRLCxULEI-wx9oJueB0ZadlnNMsOviL3WTc3MFWAeM2-jbJ710ckuiof2ophCrJreyJg/s1837/1903_05_13%20John%20Dirkin%20Daily%20People%20(New%20York%20NY)%20p1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1837" data-original-width="1521" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOG1cxTvIpLZI2lmUTMl6qx1JXLThIzrv-nNSTlbnoA8GaUhyphenhyphen85VEAZzc1J9r9HWY789bsS2zvFEdi8o5B9mxwOeqiyXHDw872uaRjJECGetQ9r43qDbKWm1_CRLCxULEI-wx9oJueB0ZadlnNMsOviL3WTc3MFWAeM2-jbJ710ckuiof2ophCrJreyJg/w166-h200/1903_05_13%20John%20Dirkin%20Daily%20People%20(New%20York%20NY)%20p1.jpg" width="166" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div></div><blockquote><div>Two Sudden Deaths</div><div>“I’ll take just one moire drink.”</div><div>Uttering these words, a man said to be John Durkin, an artist, of No. 319 West Thirty-eight street, raised the glass to his lips, but before he could quaff its contents dropped to the floor and died of apoplexy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Durkin’s death occurred in the saloon of John Gillen, Wythe avenue and Taylor street, Brooklyn.</div><div><br /></div><div>At the West Thirty-eighth street address no one of the name of John Durkin is known. ...</div></blockquote><div></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>New York Herald</i>, May 13, 1903, Obituary Notes</div><div><br /></div><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6LQBfhbm5CLokNSKaOxBi3F-AuRXhTuEX57YUpeoLagiC7GBE5jZ-xg8l-0ILxtN2ibpTowftgwFp9ZVUrFT1vVCcq9jLNInNZ3ut17qQ2wJPaX-owRNqAWNohP5vqutSJcD9yDk-wh3GRRX7cXqJYPRTBI0x3N_0ic5icnaUU_dLSCcQi7qeV2q9yHc/s1089/1903_05_13%20John%20Durkin%20New%20York%20Herald%20p14.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="1089" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6LQBfhbm5CLokNSKaOxBi3F-AuRXhTuEX57YUpeoLagiC7GBE5jZ-xg8l-0ILxtN2ibpTowftgwFp9ZVUrFT1vVCcq9jLNInNZ3ut17qQ2wJPaX-owRNqAWNohP5vqutSJcD9yDk-wh3GRRX7cXqJYPRTBI0x3N_0ic5icnaUU_dLSCcQi7qeV2q9yHc/w200-h88/1903_05_13%20John%20Durkin%20New%20York%20Herald%20p14.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote><div>John Durkin, an artist, whose work was well known in the illustrated papers and magazines of this city, died from apoplexy in the Eastern District Hospital, Brooklyn, yesterday. He came here from the West about twelve years ago, and was thirty-five years old. He was seized in the street by an attack of apoplexy on Monday night and became unconscious. He was removed to the hospital but died without regaining consciousness.</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div><i><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=sArNgO4T4MoC&dat=19030513&printsec=frontpage&hl=en" target="_blank">Boston Evening Transcript</a></i> (Massachusetts), May 13, 1903</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQKA31s8ylEh4o4uRlLcY3UiTgbCmQ4EyY1ujNqvmNc7RlwrkT2fad5INqr90ms8YjbQDj89ZBv4HUUmfJJAQ_EtoHbeVqz2BkkQllUtsNVZD4JRP9OG3hZ97bnP1dQ9jmVTbYj2Zn3-vx4mLeI_5XA-rOmWcANzwuYxz1w026Y8XoMbF9zXPN0ml7ryg/s909/1903_05_13%20John%20Durkin%20Boston%20Evening%20Transcript%20(MA)%20p2%20c4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="909" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQKA31s8ylEh4o4uRlLcY3UiTgbCmQ4EyY1ujNqvmNc7RlwrkT2fad5INqr90ms8YjbQDj89ZBv4HUUmfJJAQ_EtoHbeVqz2BkkQllUtsNVZD4JRP9OG3hZ97bnP1dQ9jmVTbYj2Zn3-vx4mLeI_5XA-rOmWcANzwuYxz1w026Y8XoMbF9zXPN0ml7ryg/w200-h49/1903_05_13%20John%20Durkin%20Boston%20Evening%20Transcript%20(MA)%20p2%20c4.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><p> </p><blockquote>Mr. John Durkin, an artist, whose work was well known in the illustrated papers and magazines of New York, died yesterday. He came from the West about twelve years ago and was thirty-five years old.</blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>Durkin was laid to rest at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115037311/john-durkin" target="_blank">Cedar Grove Cemetery</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAU1d8PYXIXg5iZuDj2gWaf5ocIAfdJDGiEj9PS4e3ZhlaJqRRH1pZbZgWN5To7Qb5UV1u_dZHmJ-6z0yCMV4qKRWbGArGAweaZVergACJlyZcQv8CeTqUjotUZ7Z-yeYNj_oAnPpx4mbYUynaOROQsq6h-Z3k4G-bDdKbBZf9vqj4R9ln4sNntoYkvl8/s1832/1903_05_12%20John%20Durkin%20New%20York,%20New%20York%20Death%20Certificate%2001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1832" data-original-width="1577" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAU1d8PYXIXg5iZuDj2gWaf5ocIAfdJDGiEj9PS4e3ZhlaJqRRH1pZbZgWN5To7Qb5UV1u_dZHmJ-6z0yCMV4qKRWbGArGAweaZVergACJlyZcQv8CeTqUjotUZ7Z-yeYNj_oAnPpx4mbYUynaOROQsq6h-Z3k4G-bDdKbBZf9vqj4R9ln4sNntoYkvl8/w344-h400/1903_05_12%20John%20Durkin%20New%20York,%20New%20York%20Death%20Certificate%2001.jpg" width="344" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Some of her portraits of Chinatown residents can be viewed at <a href="https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Beryl-Marjory-Floris/2941D50E574EC7B0" target="_blank">Mutual Art</a>, <a href="https://bid.alexcooper.com/lots/view/1-7UBHR8/beryl-floris-portrait-of-an-asian-man-ink-wash" target="_blank">Alex Cooper</a>, and <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/325165236002?hash=item4bb55bbf22:g:6bgAAOSwl89fwLZL&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4DSIX%2FvKSGGVxs%2BC5K9Js8%2FvDHVVXlYNRbh%2FmJ5WxsQ1bpUB8AeoRJ1KX6Os%2BbQRi0q7JMaPCU84mgCxzcbhm%2FDOkvRTxvIZltHTKl7h%2BGIZFZBuzG9spLCiYsOahansycaB%2B2gs9g47a%2BMjYOgjeUm50lS6E0BpO1dJrDmCVHmGYPxgqGMvMR0OhJUPV2br%2B3GtlfATtAyJh8k1XX%2Fg7KcVBENC1jnos%2F4LV7JLwzALjW7addlvyeI5uECEL%2BsBJxi5AD9EgORf9DmZh0HEakID8VC47oD3kSblUpJGb3f5%7Ctkp%3ABFBM4Ijtpdpi" target="_blank">eBay</a>. The detail of the painting below shows it was made on the February 22, 1963 edition of the <i>Chinese Times</i>. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsIAiHg9k9dpl6eJJFg0_AQzPlg5Z3pBEnuDwuKDYiNyhxLMGMM5GnuSrye0BFYC58SZVfZRVxf-yKMTsrky_LXDFXLuyk--yv-MRN-VlKf5srjw2AvmKJkdsMHErwxF1bCO4BXjBMTHyfFGmLYM_g-gUZSX8CoUXjkx_UCpQ7_C3TkscCdyJF7VtiSfI/s1600/1963_02_22%20Beryl%20Floris%20Chinese%20Times%20San%20Francisco%20CA%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1361" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsIAiHg9k9dpl6eJJFg0_AQzPlg5Z3pBEnuDwuKDYiNyhxLMGMM5GnuSrye0BFYC58SZVfZRVxf-yKMTsrky_LXDFXLuyk--yv-MRN-VlKf5srjw2AvmKJkdsMHErwxF1bCO4BXjBMTHyfFGmLYM_g-gUZSX8CoUXjkx_UCpQ7_C3TkscCdyJF7VtiSfI/w341-h400/1963_02_22%20Beryl%20Floris%20Chinese%20Times%20San%20Francisco%20CA%2001.jpg" width="341" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6jixWHq6EeCpN7EvaO8J532fQ6FHnQNiO22Ms-j6xVFlO2a1jo7wZ3prnCMCPm5tfmrU4G6cMSw-Nk3reemgual4VrlsbkwJS0LhgcrJ5DaZiUpxF4e5NXzakwLFOE3Bpon10RXSpGTlEGXL4EWPJs4xaormn-8WdLsQzCKgJ4h7fAP1qgqg3GA6I13A/s1600/1963_02_22%20Beryl%20Floris%20Chinese%20Times%20San%20Francisco%20CA%2003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6jixWHq6EeCpN7EvaO8J532fQ6FHnQNiO22Ms-j6xVFlO2a1jo7wZ3prnCMCPm5tfmrU4G6cMSw-Nk3reemgual4VrlsbkwJS0LhgcrJ5DaZiUpxF4e5NXzakwLFOE3Bpon10RXSpGTlEGXL4EWPJs4xaormn-8WdLsQzCKgJ4h7fAP1qgqg3GA6I13A/s320/1963_02_22%20Beryl%20Floris%20Chinese%20Times%20San%20Francisco%20CA%2003.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>She was born Beryl Marjory Brown on January 19, 1904, in Missoula, Montana. The birth information is from her first husband’s naturalization application. George Douglas Cooper was Canadian. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQxeiX8GUftHZBaqd5zohL6mE1241pyyAZiuPlVH8v69nbxPqZ8HJI3WPLzgB8GICWA_xcGmP9hRYgih3MiKaBKwR_fd2pin_DUlZyc4UYmHBAGTzupw1855qVJLm6Fj2EEXyWT01GR4P-cSxoKxl3iy3xc5Z9Q2hz6EOnHrLT3P6KAqIyJXdSU4LN8SA/s2551/1931_04_15%20Douglas%20Cooper%20Naturalization%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2551" data-original-width="1952" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQxeiX8GUftHZBaqd5zohL6mE1241pyyAZiuPlVH8v69nbxPqZ8HJI3WPLzgB8GICWA_xcGmP9hRYgih3MiKaBKwR_fd2pin_DUlZyc4UYmHBAGTzupw1855qVJLm6Fj2EEXyWT01GR4P-cSxoKxl3iy3xc5Z9Q2hz6EOnHrLT3P6KAqIyJXdSU4LN8SA/w308-h400/1931_04_15%20Douglas%20Cooper%20Naturalization%2001.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Other sources, such as the Social Security Death Index and California Death Index (at Ancestry.com) have the birth year 1909. </div><div><br /></div><div>In the 1910 United States Census, Beryl (line 48) was the oldest of two children born to Edward, a bookkeeper, and Daisy. They were Seattle, Washington residents at 1826 29th Avenue. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcpd9v60JEZ33Ga-32--z0zjsSoYYZUWK5z4JooQpCTOiFlVB_1XK2hwNu33sZNGgxuzfBvSOGykvgLy8Eyu3mlh-JYjGcjZVc_Vf_9RVEiWZKd2IMILqg4L43N19KTwO2c8St48H8Q6iMvGoKP5o6BAFmtjIZOYFP8oaY8dx5rmZq5NORxHtB9voVdA/s3655/1910%20Beryl%20Brown%20Census%20L48.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2600" data-original-width="3655" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcpd9v60JEZ33Ga-32--z0zjsSoYYZUWK5z4JooQpCTOiFlVB_1XK2hwNu33sZNGgxuzfBvSOGykvgLy8Eyu3mlh-JYjGcjZVc_Vf_9RVEiWZKd2IMILqg4L43N19KTwO2c8St48H8Q6iMvGoKP5o6BAFmtjIZOYFP8oaY8dx5rmZq5NORxHtB9voVdA/w400-h285/1910%20Beryl%20Brown%20Census%20L48.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The 1920 census counted Beryl, her parents and brother (lines 36 to 39) in Tetherow, Oregon on Dobson Lane. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwSE1VtVuot-n7lYQXe0Wq4foMisS4k5W1QudZ8U4d_nqe_yMfUeTNg2Geaquq0GX-zxZOT_9VfEnf2AeQS73iS5vRzzA6Jlub41HEHiFDAfPaioveDVkXmVXTAkMhXGNP0K4jJpjj-Dj_I7UTxJ0iKQMI_XqIJGORxo2Jjqw7nXYEDNHJLQGJziQAEc/s3710/1920%20Beryl%20Brown%20Census%20L38.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2583" data-original-width="3710" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwSE1VtVuot-n7lYQXe0Wq4foMisS4k5W1QudZ8U4d_nqe_yMfUeTNg2Geaquq0GX-zxZOT_9VfEnf2AeQS73iS5vRzzA6Jlub41HEHiFDAfPaioveDVkXmVXTAkMhXGNP0K4jJpjj-Dj_I7UTxJ0iKQMI_XqIJGORxo2Jjqw7nXYEDNHJLQGJziQAEc/w400-h279/1920%20Beryl%20Brown%20Census%20L38.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>After graduating high school, Beryl continued her education at the University of Oregon. She resided at Susan Campbell Hall. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-AscBloWLt0WzAayc-1Dqfq593wlZnHdV7_HO1leSDERImcsEMkUih3OiwTFkq165xbtVtimJYDTNoGVl7YvHDs-C37tBzhJ0B8qmndZ3A46_VvCSCra4O0W143GvXMZtHqYVVbS3ySbtqYcKH-20T2nQrhBsk4di4JoF1exgffuiRL5t5Yh_X969tFc/s3162/1925%20Beryl%20M%20Brown%20Oregana%20University%20of%20Oregon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3162" data-original-width="2235" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-AscBloWLt0WzAayc-1Dqfq593wlZnHdV7_HO1leSDERImcsEMkUih3OiwTFkq165xbtVtimJYDTNoGVl7YvHDs-C37tBzhJ0B8qmndZ3A46_VvCSCra4O0W143GvXMZtHqYVVbS3ySbtqYcKH-20T2nQrhBsk4di4JoF1exgffuiRL5t5Yh_X969tFc/w283-h400/1925%20Beryl%20M%20Brown%20Oregana%20University%20of%20Oregon.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">1925 <i><a href="https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/12018" target="_blank">Oregana</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8m-RYomBZ65Ts9xuJCayBrcn9R3F9oV9t31zlMHruLoLiAHSQy1C_yfp6eaJZGv0jZ2fC8Zlil3bmsb17T7nLgXz-FuzTvCLOFASzWCpHb2H_8TMK6BLV3iBaNiL_EUG1N78dPYYaaIp1mbNuiTaiF_beQQuMnH0Gbx2ugdd6RL4xBvhUjoHJ_GP6PJo/s3600/1926%20Beryl%20M%20Brown%20Oregana%20University%20of%20Oregon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3600" data-original-width="2616" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8m-RYomBZ65Ts9xuJCayBrcn9R3F9oV9t31zlMHruLoLiAHSQy1C_yfp6eaJZGv0jZ2fC8Zlil3bmsb17T7nLgXz-FuzTvCLOFASzWCpHb2H_8TMK6BLV3iBaNiL_EUG1N78dPYYaaIp1mbNuiTaiF_beQQuMnH0Gbx2ugdd6RL4xBvhUjoHJ_GP6PJo/w291-h400/1926%20Beryl%20M%20Brown%20Oregana%20University%20of%20Oregon.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">1926 <i><a href="https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/12019" target="_blank">Oregana</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div>Beryl graduated in 1927. She was on the <i><a href="https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/12020" target="_blank">Oregana</a></i> yearbook staff as a portrait artist. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJNIjoNlQ0pS64pa_lQVNuWv2JIYwV67HOdtlZsclsyhnSl3iigbjj0qt6fZTKT35UVxrOZN4PYDHgTJsAykC9o1ITW9yvQjXpZZWayIZiifixUhKGM0OBMguQTTefC5ASwDv-b4mWacvflJxPNZjlMn5phrAY9ViNCewBglkEF5PQ_H0Swr22PWDKM4/s1833/1927%20Beryl%20M%20Brown%20Oregana%20University%20of%20Oregon%2001b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="1833" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJNIjoNlQ0pS64pa_lQVNuWv2JIYwV67HOdtlZsclsyhnSl3iigbjj0qt6fZTKT35UVxrOZN4PYDHgTJsAykC9o1ITW9yvQjXpZZWayIZiifixUhKGM0OBMguQTTefC5ASwDv-b4mWacvflJxPNZjlMn5phrAY9ViNCewBglkEF5PQ_H0Swr22PWDKM4/w400-h141/1927%20Beryl%20M%20Brown%20Oregana%20University%20of%20Oregon%2001b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Their marriage ended in divorce. Cooper remarried to Maxine E. Wickes on July 24, 1937.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvBOw3CeUds8N7YUTA2V2Fc5_wCbkMBz5MOHCT_UVLUk3Cx1j3edcbFD_v1bJOx2iiodMKQttw7_moPpTN3YX7L7kS2qMWPeZK-qmNtsTP6LCJX4ty29is_ojRKlRJVkXh-x7-SmAVRIRHdVpsWJ2UOL4ZoKTAu77edXY8LfUZKecakN9WSTeHgc8d4cU/s3791/1930%20Beryl%20B%20Cooper%20Census%20L2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2668" data-original-width="3791" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvBOw3CeUds8N7YUTA2V2Fc5_wCbkMBz5MOHCT_UVLUk3Cx1j3edcbFD_v1bJOx2iiodMKQttw7_moPpTN3YX7L7kS2qMWPeZK-qmNtsTP6LCJX4ty29is_ojRKlRJVkXh-x7-SmAVRIRHdVpsWJ2UOL4ZoKTAu77edXY8LfUZKecakN9WSTeHgc8d4cU/w400-h283/1930%20Beryl%20B%20Cooper%20Census%20L2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Beryl has not yet been found in the 1940 census. </div><div><br /></div><div>A family tree at <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G4VT-RP2 " target="_blank">Family Search</a> said Beryl remarried to John Balogh Floris on December 18, 1944 in San Francisco, California. </div><div><br /></div><div>The <i><a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MVR19450906.2.43&srpos=1&e=-------en-logical-20--1---txIN-%22beryl+floris%22-------" target="_blank">Mill Valley Record</a></i> (California), September 6, 1945, covered the Hansel and Gretel opera at Forest Meadow Dominican College, San Rafael, and said </div><div><blockquote>... An attraction made possible by a Mill Valley woman is the giving away to two lucky children at the performance two hand-made dolls dressed as Hansel and Gretel. These were donated by Mrs. Beryl Floris, Mill Valley designer of character dolls.</blockquote></div><div>The <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IfxHAQAAIAAJ&q=%22beryl+floris%22&dq=%22beryl+floris%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7joXoosiBAxWWEVkFHe1LA7QQ6AF6BAgHEAI" target="_blank">San Francisco ReCreation</a></i>, May 3, 1947, said Beryl won Best Home Made Doll at the Doll Show. </div><div><br /></div><div>The 1948 San Francisco city directory listed Beryl and her husband at 1870 Sacramento Street which was almost a mile west of Chinatown. </div><div><br /></div><div>The 1950 census recorded Beryl (line 18), her husband, and two daughters, Mary and Dorothy, from her previous marriage, in San Francisco at 1870 Sacramento Street. Beryl was a social worker. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQsMH2HJDFGrcNboXYduhh1A4tgjaXKicUZa07eEk1p1iEaLflQg7gI3m5DbDNPqaAFXhFCcYIG5vp138MTrhH2hISlXDwKLRqcGz2Kbid5nPP7p0xG7WwOl1Iz_9F8jEKsV75Ey9oD8E-pyZUIj6cNLCU0brvCRLSMaQ4sJ-Xx0wCD8Vvt3ZOVFXj1rM/s4498/1950%20Beryl%20M%20Floris%20Census%20L18.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4498" data-original-width="3704" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQsMH2HJDFGrcNboXYduhh1A4tgjaXKicUZa07eEk1p1iEaLflQg7gI3m5DbDNPqaAFXhFCcYIG5vp138MTrhH2hISlXDwKLRqcGz2Kbid5nPP7p0xG7WwOl1Iz_9F8jEKsV75Ey9oD8E-pyZUIj6cNLCU0brvCRLSMaQ4sJ-Xx0wCD8Vvt3ZOVFXj1rM/w331-h400/1950%20Beryl%20M%20Floris%20Census%20L18.jpg" width="331" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>In 1953 Beryl and her husband created the <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mUAhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA223&dq=%22beryl+m+floris%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjcof-YqMiBAxWpD1kFHfdEDB4Q6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=%22beryl%20m%20floris%22&f=false" target="_blank">Daily Dolly</a></i>. It’s not known how many issues were published. </div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52012506/daisy-johanna-brown" target="_blank">Beryl’s mother</a> passed away on January 27, 1960 (death certificate at Ancestry.com). </div><div><br /></div><div>Beryl produced her Chinatown watercolor portraits in the 1960s. </div><div><br /></div><div>Beryl turned her attention to the early days of gold mining. <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/coinworld00unse_lyn/page/40/mode/2up?q=%22Beryl+Floris%22" target="_blank">Coin World</a></i>, November 7, 1973, said </div></div><div><blockquote>…The MC also introduced artist Beryl Floris, whose paintings of historic Gold Rush and gold mining events were displayed, as an “honorary numismatist,” who had taken “the raw ore of the paint and refined it into a coin which enriched the viewers.”</blockquote></div><div><div>The <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xVc_AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA49&dq=beryl+floris&article_id=5960,3995883&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjg0vqOu8iBAxUTMlkFHbJkDO8Q6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q=beryl%20floris&f=false" target="_blank">Windsor Star</a></i> (Ontario, Canada), December 11, 1973, reported the numismatic show in San Francisco and said </div><div><blockquote>... The paintings have been donated by Beryl Brown Floris, whose family settled on the West Coast before the discovery of gold in 1848. Mrs. Floris’ great-grandmother once traded a vial of gold dust for jar of pickles in San Francisco. ...</blockquote></div></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/calcoinnews28n0cali/page/12/mode/2up?q=%22Beryl+Floris%22" target="_blank">Calcoin News Quarterly Magazine</a></i>, Winter 1974, Volume 28, Number 1, said </div><div><blockquote>... Beryl Floris, whose paintings depicting gold mining days are on display in the Old Mint, was made an honorary numismatist and received a silver medal to make her a bona fide coin collector. ...</blockquote></div><div>Beryl was mentioned in the <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/annualreportofun1974unit/page/26/mode/2up?q=%22Beryl+Floris%22" target="_blank">Annual Report of the United States Mint</a></i> for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1974. </div><div><blockquote>... During the fiscal year, approximately 106,000 persons toured the Old Mint Museum. The exhibits viewed by those people included: A collection of notes and coins dating back to the gold rush era loaned by the California State Numismatic Association; a collection of antique firearms used by both the lawless and the law enforcers of the Old West; an 1874 Wells Fargo stagecoach and an 1873 LaFrance fire engine used in the 1906 San Francisco fire on loan from Mr. Michael Simpson; the Big Bonanza exhibit which commemorates the discovery of the great Comstock Lode in Nevada; a collection of original paintings of the North Mother Lode country donated by the artist Beryl Floris; and, the Henry Clifford Pioneer Gold Coin Collection.</blockquote></div><div>The 1974 Grass Valley, California city directory listed Beryl and her husband at 226 Tribulation Trail, Nevada City.</div><div><br /></div><div>Beryl passed away on December 2, 1979, in Nevada City, California. She was laid to rest at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69464901/beryl-marjory-floris " target="_blank">Ilwaco Cemetery</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>In 1980 her husband published <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Elvamox.html?id=w_1AHAAACAAJ" target="_blank">Elvamox: Memories of a Pacific Northwest Family</a></i>. <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147464194/john-balogh-floris" target="_blank">He passed away</a> on October 10, 1993. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=61oMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA437&dq=%22dorothy+Floris%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8xdfZsciBAxVZjYkEHQHZBSAQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=%22dorothy%20Floris%22&f=false" target="_blank">Beryl’s daughters</a> attended the University of California, Berkeley. <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-marriage-of-floris/131181220/" target="_blank">Mary married</a> Jan Stuart Stevens. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zaGkJfnFa5QC&q=%22dorothy+Floris%22&dq=%22dorothy+Floris%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8xdfZsciBAxVZjYkEHQHZBSAQ6AF6BAgJEAI" target="_blank">Dorothy married</a> Clark Winton Reynolds. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>(Next post on Monday: <a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2023/12/graphics-merry-christmas.html" target="_blank">Merry Christmas</a>)</div>Alex Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-11327147811703227022023-12-13T08:00:00.010-05:002023-12-20T08:04:48.845-05:00Film: New York Chinatown<div>YouTube Videos</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-gk0krmh0Y" target="_blank">Fabulous New York 1930s in Color</a></div><div>0:27–1:37—Chinatown, Chinese Rathskeller, Lee’s Restaurant, </div><div>Quong Yee Wo Co., Port Arthur Restaurant (1:05), Rice Bowl (1:32)</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjwyUAtACTI&t=834s" target="_blank">A Day in New York 1940s in color</a> </div><div>2:39–2:48—Chinatown, Mott Street, Tai Yat Low</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXD3G1pWXkU" target="_blank">Mighty Manhattan, New York’s Wonder City 1949</a></div><div>4:05–4:32—Chinatown</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQJQRGAo3KY" target="_blank">This Is New York, 1950</a></div><div>8:24–8:52—Chinatown</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa7WpL9d_B4" target="_blank">Spectacular New York, 1956</a></div><div>2:01–2:28—Chinatown</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0dBGCBm0cc" target="_blank">New York City 1959</a></div><div>5:42–13:04—Chinatown and Little Italy; Lum Fong (7:59)</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m138USl6DY " target="_blank">New York / Manhattan 1965</a></div><div>1:59–2:18—Chinatown</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T670oRYd-_4" target="_blank">Manhattan, New York, 1967</a></div><div>6:20–7:23—Chinatown, Port Arthur Restaurant (6:45)</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2MylcYTNUY&t=202s" target="_blank">New York 1970 archive footage</a></div><div>1:44–2:27—Chinatown</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>(Next post on Wednesday: <a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2023/12/beryl-marjory-floris-artist.html" target="_blank">Beryl Marjory Floris, Artist</a>)</div>Alex Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-58161342255776120992023-12-06T08:00:00.010-05:002024-03-13T08:19:33.753-04:00Magazine Covers: The Illustrated New York Chinese Restaurant<div><i>The New Yorker</i>, August 27, 1927</div><div>Art by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilonka_Karasz" target="_blank">Ilonka Karasz</a></div><div><a href="https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/LotDetails?salename=THE-NEW-YORKER.-ILONKA-KARASZ.-Chop-Suey.-2526%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B256%2B-%2B%2B761314&saleno=2526&lotNo=256&refNo=761314" target="_blank">Original art</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHgZOTqNGZutiSsu-Cl2Etq9230bXFilTHNFhg3QMXsAIP9jYeslNCaufwHFp4uCXI5pAmsHhVulHmDx8gs1sqzl6gvNw2DESz5V2KoqXyZmgFDAIer6dXtL9JLpOpYQ8BcdMOxWTNaaPYQBpNs56ZTwGu4yzC5n_pkZvE-4YLDpUtot6Jkuh5713C/s1045/1927_08_27%20Chop%20Suey%20The%20New%20Yorker%2001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1045" data-original-width="760" height="400" 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foreground table has three, possibly four, </div><div>military men with China-Burma-India patches.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrIpkBiXTPc9Re1BIeGUroMMHMFrIn4uXWwMCqUweM48JZIhgEkAQIuEQ4bokJ6NN-aW6nDspNs1fMqkt4RZwxnvuxD0zySOXeSKNHv6ewgCb9-uZDvqF2CqRZkEldd5N4njfoE-hHjp_vx-4adaoNGSrI56edmiOM-bRPjpT6FcdK-ntfCDRnqE-I/s3317/1945_01_13%20Chinese%20Restaurant%20The%20New%20Yorker.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3317" data-original-width="2455" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrIpkBiXTPc9Re1BIeGUroMMHMFrIn4uXWwMCqUweM48JZIhgEkAQIuEQ4bokJ6NN-aW6nDspNs1fMqkt4RZwxnvuxD0zySOXeSKNHv6ewgCb9-uZDvqF2CqRZkEldd5N4njfoE-hHjp_vx-4adaoNGSrI56edmiOM-bRPjpT6FcdK-ntfCDRnqE-I/w298-h400/1945_01_13%20Chinese%20Restaurant%20The%20New%20Yorker.jpg" width="298" 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Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-26705123807620840212023-11-29T08:00:00.011-05:002024-03-13T08:19:50.638-04:00Photography: Chinese Tuxedo, New York City<div>The Chinese Tuxedo restaurant opened on October 6, 1904 according to the <i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1904-10-07/ed-1/seq-6/" target="_blank">New-York Tribune</a></i>, October 7, 1904. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Exaltation for Chop Suey.</div><div>A Delmonico’s for Bird’s Nest Soup and Shark’s Fins.</div><div>The shortest and almost the crookedest street in New-York—Doyers, off Chatham Square—was the noisiest in the city last night, and as a result of the noise will be carpeted in firecracker red for several days to come. The Chop Suey Trust finally opened the first of a chain of giddy Chinese restaurants, under the name of the Chinese Tuxedo, at No. 2 Doyers-st. The largest American eagle in the city is the sign of the new establishment, and is the only American thing about the place.</div><div><br /></div><div>A hundred invited Americans sat down to the opening dinner last night as the guests of Mr. Moy, the manager. It was one of the biggest Chinese dinners ever served in Chintaown [sic], and from Li-Chee to Ching-Moy the guests did not overlook a single course. There were some who were a little backward when it came to bird’s nest soup and, and others found shark’s fins a cutting dish. Ng-may-gai, a combination of chicken, bacon, and Chinese roots, was the most pretentious course of the evening. </div><div><br /></div><div>At every table was an Americanized Chinese, who translated the dishes after the guests had had a guessing contest on what they were eating. Toward the end of the meal souvenir chopsticks were passed around, and there was a spirited competition, which resulted in spilling more food on the table than got into hungry mouths. The lines of Lee Tai Bark, which may be translated—</div><div><br /></div><div>Drink to-day, as we have the wine before us,</div><div>For morrow’s sorrows are morrow’s sorrows.</div><div><br /></div><div>was the motto the Chinese hosts insisted on, and there was no end of white rice wine for the fulfilment [sic]. After 10 o’clock the doors were thrown open to the public, and Chinatown crowded in to marvel at the fineness of chop suey’s newest throne.</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXSxfm7W92Oq0S0Md_gtbEnDV_Yls9S1QGwx0aJ2DC7tIdrzo5hNNqOZVuMTSkh04nnmF2K7m6HEt5U_gFKneEwpkcFVSKW7_rvyFNIrvwX_taK2cWzoX5NT99jnNxPYMBqoBAnGEY4SvGco5U7ry6LMjSyJbF3ZRnWf6COcXWYjW65HR17RbS7CMN/s1805/1904_10_07%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Tribune%20p6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1805" data-original-width="1098" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXSxfm7W92Oq0S0Md_gtbEnDV_Yls9S1QGwx0aJ2DC7tIdrzo5hNNqOZVuMTSkh04nnmF2K7m6HEt5U_gFKneEwpkcFVSKW7_rvyFNIrvwX_taK2cWzoX5NT99jnNxPYMBqoBAnGEY4SvGco5U7ry6LMjSyJbF3ZRnWf6COcXWYjW65HR17RbS7CMN/s320/1904_10_07%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Tribune%20p6.jpg" width="195" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The restaurant’s opening was noted in the <i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86086499/1904-10-22/ed-1/seq-6/#date1=1770&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=0&words=Chinese+Tuxedo&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Chinese+tuxedo&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">Wauwatosa News</a></i> (Wisconsin), October 22, 1904. </div><div><blockquote>A Chinese “Sherry’s,” where no chop-suey is served, has been opened in Chinatown. With plenty of noise by the Chinese band, the setting off of firecrackers and the burning of plenty of redtire the Chinese Tuxedo restaurant was opened with great eclat. Quong Lee Tah, one of the proprietors, attired in a natty evening dress suit, greeted the arrival of the guests. Invitations had been sent out to many of the city officials. Through some unavoidable error “Chuck” Connors, the mayor of Chinatown, was not invited. The guests sat down to the following menu: Fresh le-chee, fresh sar-li, fresh star fruits, salted almonds, birdsnest soup, sharks’ fins, snow fungus, fruit duck, squab balls, ng-may-gai chicken, nuts, ching-moy, golden limes, sweet chowchow, red ginger, almond paste, pineapple, cakes, lichee nuts. </blockquote></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/realestaterecord7419unse/page/812/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">Real Estate Record and Builders’ Guide</a></i>, October 15, 1904, page 813:</div><div>Chattel Mortgages </div><div>Chinese Tuxedo. 2 Doyers.. Nat C R Co, Register. 250</div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/realestaterecord7419unse/page/1248/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22 " target="_blank">Real Estate Record and Builders’ Guide</a></i>, December 3, 1904, page 1249: </div><div>Chattel Mortgages.</div><div>Kew, C or Chinese Tuxedo.. Nat C R Co. Register. 350</div><div><br /></div><div>The Chinese Tuxedo caught the eyes of photographers.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOTmPU9xU2gNTp9p0rhLdzFcKbRlSFDG537H6kUWVfAnYD26cvJ-RmEY2vB5Ue6q0ge9yFg2iv7uVVmtgZzvCAbKH3fMRpAI4QtrpPaD59S0QIagT4uFj7B8l_Hv5x2Cc1eeg-zf41IaPC5DjsjJyKSyr5lUFmyMLHscUWE0SppG0kwkEEmOQTWmxl/s800/Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Doyers%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Detroit%20Publishing%20Co.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="645" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOTmPU9xU2gNTp9p0rhLdzFcKbRlSFDG537H6kUWVfAnYD26cvJ-RmEY2vB5Ue6q0ge9yFg2iv7uVVmtgZzvCAbKH3fMRpAI4QtrpPaD59S0QIagT4uFj7B8l_Hv5x2Cc1eeg-zf41IaPC5DjsjJyKSyr5lUFmyMLHscUWE0SppG0kwkEEmOQTWmxl/w324-h400/Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Doyers%20Street%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Detroit%20Publishing%20Co.jpg" width="324" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Library of Congress, <a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016795540/" target="_blank">Detroit Publishing Co.</a>, circa 1905</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1589" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtav5FJjHHak6SP28VZocQR6tHycy07-GuqpjPFs3q1XMfEVTsnR9Xp-67an8yf4vLeZN1JTHun5x6xjb5nYbn27TmdV427uIRdVN4FyPke8hrvDPOfLl668MaLf7GpwoSPMb2xfOtdw7CeorPehU5YNJ4oTjFtc3IMk_UU1L6aWJ6KI9xZl6y4n_/w400-h254/1905%20%C2%A9%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Rotograph%2001b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Copyright filed in 1905 by the <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogoftitleen1905lib/page/892/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">Rotograph Company</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8HLK6JbSAqmY1MLq7ay7aPL4At4vfOrkhjgobgEa3nJvz8ytbFmUdftaOq6rCPHATMV3qI3Lyi5_hKJzEpir5-ayrWjyYLGbBbxUwmyJEausb6TLNLmwPjJZJmP0sDEFXwJdfyxYTvnNOQgqmlH5sRIo84oWQyIeNrw8FKxt4YHQdT6THaCuccc3N/s1597/1906_08_08%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Rotograph%2001a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1597" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8HLK6JbSAqmY1MLq7ay7aPL4At4vfOrkhjgobgEa3nJvz8ytbFmUdftaOq6rCPHATMV3qI3Lyi5_hKJzEpir5-ayrWjyYLGbBbxUwmyJEausb6TLNLmwPjJZJmP0sDEFXwJdfyxYTvnNOQgqmlH5sRIo84oWQyIeNrw8FKxt4YHQdT6THaCuccc3N/w400-h264/1906_08_08%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Rotograph%2001a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimW1ISc8CesEbWF_JdP7ozDmqeiHysSoWMzmrJpEJMj16fJ_ds6FoMpgXiJqDHATGQ8UnmqgguCVkhjFu74yRntGd4A4fgZyREltfgpgm17zq-bwCsE1nAErjriHXzOxfPPgv9K3G1S_5FM12y0Qabk5t3zPYlLdtNVTDYoDEgHmc9QLHFyrFjggr7/s1603/1906_08_08%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Rotograph%2001b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1047" data-original-width="1603" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimW1ISc8CesEbWF_JdP7ozDmqeiHysSoWMzmrJpEJMj16fJ_ds6FoMpgXiJqDHATGQ8UnmqgguCVkhjFu74yRntGd4A4fgZyREltfgpgm17zq-bwCsE1nAErjriHXzOxfPPgv9K3G1S_5FM12y0Qabk5t3zPYlLdtNVTDYoDEgHmc9QLHFyrFjggr7/w400-h261/1906_08_08%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinatown%20NYC%20Rotograph%2001b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Copyright filed in 1905 by the <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogoftitleen1905libr/page/154/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">Rotograph Company</a>; </div><div style="text-align: center;">postmarked August 8, 1906</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZyw-i1n5Nzc-hC_8vjxrZ4QiBln0J1z1EZFHsPwiW7hMFqX75x2hOg5admZlYGLUOh3HqMHvCHdL_xbr219crKa8mAMV5Tv20_L5T_LJTBZwQbAmIlwfwqX56Sy_0DZOVxf5hy-fmbmVD9UFXfwrJMLJqV4RmUPq2xYeXZ-J-brMvNSLwTPIojD7O/s1264/Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Restaurant,%202%20Doyers%20Street,%20New%20York.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1264" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZyw-i1n5Nzc-hC_8vjxrZ4QiBln0J1z1EZFHsPwiW7hMFqX75x2hOg5admZlYGLUOh3HqMHvCHdL_xbr219crKa8mAMV5Tv20_L5T_LJTBZwQbAmIlwfwqX56Sy_0DZOVxf5hy-fmbmVD9UFXfwrJMLJqV4RmUPq2xYeXZ-J-brMvNSLwTPIojD7O/w400-h251/Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Restaurant,%202%20Doyers%20Street,%20New%20York.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/durst/cul:vmcvdnck11" target="_blank">Columbia University Libraries</a>, date unknown</div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87068097/1905-05-06/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1770&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=1&words=Chinese+Tuxedo&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Chinese+tuxedo&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">Jersey City News</a></i> (New Jersey), May 6, 1905, page 1:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Did Chinatown.</div><div>Messrs Lehane, See Bok, and Rooney Have An Odd Experience.</div><div>With C. Soule Bok as a professional guide, Edward Badeaux See, Matthew Rooney and John L. McKnight, of the office of the Street and Water Board, and Sidwalk [sic] Inspector Frank P. Lehane, invaded Chinatown, in New York, last night. They took in a great many Oriental sights and dined at the Chinese Tuxedo, No. 2 Doyers street. They don’t look very mell [sic] today, but are very enthusiastic over what they saw. From the Tuxedo bill of fare with the aid of what knowledge of Chinese lingo they had scraped from laundry tickets, aided by pictures of lobsters, ducks, chickens, fish, rodents, etc., which ornamented the menu card, they selected the following dishes:—“Yut-go Men,” “Mow Goo Chop Suey,” “Hongo Foo Yang Don,” “Ting Dun Dong Guo,” “Guy Yung Yin Wor,” “Gok Fall Goey Doo,” “Char Tsare ye Yew,” and “Chow Tuay Fall Goey Chee.”</div><div><br /></div><div>In the first course Lehane swallowed a big lump and got some of the noodles tangled in his teeth, and when his companions went to his assistance all he could say was:—“Yut-go, Men,” “Hully Chee!” “Dung Ying Know y Choke?” The Chinese waiter was both scared and mystified. He wondered waht [sic] sort of a Mongolian Lehane was. The name of the liquids with which the Oriental “delicacies” were washed down could not be made out, but that they saw “Three Kings” instead of one at the Chinese theatre, which they afterward visited, is not at all surprising. The pavements are narrow and the sidewalk inspector was obliged to walk side-wise. </div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8cQpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA135&dq=%22Chinese+Tuxedo+(inf.+unattainable)+2+Doyers%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjE9LzBjq__AhXdEVkFHdsZAOIQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Chinese%20Tuxedo%20(inf.%20unattainable)%202%20Doyers%22&f=false" target="_blank">The Trow New York Copartnership and Corporation Directory, Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx</a></i>, March 1906: “Chinese Tuxedo (inf. unattainable) 2 Doyers”</div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/54488290/?terms=%22Chinese%20Tuxedo%22&match=1" target="_blank">Brooklyn Daily Eagle</a></i>, May 23, 1907, page 15: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>College of City of New York</div><div>A unique meeting of the English Club, composed of the instructing corps of the college, was held at the Chinese Tuxedo restaurant. ...</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/per_st-louis-post-dispatch_1907-05-28_59_280/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a></i> (Missouri), May 28, 1907, page 2:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese Reform Regiment Disbands</div><div>New York, May 28.—One of the strangest gatherings this city of many peoples has ever seen was held night at the Chinese Tuxedo restaurant in Pell street, at which the 100 members of the Chinese military regiment were disbanded after three years of schooling in American army tactics, and announced their intention to return to China, to teach their fellow countrymen what they had learned of the art of war.</div><div><br /></div><div>The regiment has been conducted under the auspices of the Chinese Empire Reform Association, which has 200,000 members in this country, and which has at heart the hope of awakening numerous countrymen at home to their power of numbers. There was no revolutionary spirit in the gathering last night. It was marked by stern patriotism and the expressed desire on the part of all present to see their nation of millions get in the same ascendency in world politics as has their midget neighbor Japan. </div><div><br /></div><div>J. M. Singleton, president of the reform association, one of the wealthiest Chinamen in this country, presided. Maj. George McVicker, who has licked the pig-tailed regiment into shape during the three years, sat at his right and received the chorus of kow-tows.</div><div><br /></div><div>“If the men in China will do their work as faithfully as you have done yours China will have the greatest army in the world,” said the Major hen he arose to speak. Every man in the regiment is discharged with 100 per cent credit for service, a report which told the Americans assembled, better than anything else, how serious the regiment had been at its task.</div><div><br /></div><div>Tom Monhik, Capt. A. R. Lee, Adjt. Lung Yow, Sergt. Fong Lue and Capt. Hong Ling harangued their countrymen over the space of three hours amid wagging of heads and Chinese cheers. When they had finished talking to one another they turned their eloquence on the Americans present to thank them and make them presents. None of the speakers, save President Singleton, has a very good knowledge of English and the felicitations were laborious.</div><div><br /></div><div>Service medals were granted the military men, in elaborate speeches. President Singleton in his address said:</div><div><br /></div><div>“Your work is by no means done. It is your duty to stir up in China that same spirit which you yourselves have already displayed in your work here in this regiment. Love of country is epirit which should be constantly more and more stirred up in the Empire. We are a people wonderfully powerful in numbers.</div><div><br /></div><div>“The Japanese in numbers are a far, far smaller race. Yet how powerful a nation is Japan. In them the love of country is wonderfully displayed. Let the Chinese people display such spirit and we will be looked upon far differently than, as a people, we are now.”</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tMUpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=%22Chinese+tuxedo%22+%222+Doyers%22&source=bl&ots=KiMfT-ZfDP&sig=ACfU3U20I_PIKqEnWrMPCoEOb9jTuGaFVg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje2_-3lK__AhW_EFkFHSupBKE4FBDoAXoECAUQAw#v=onepage&q=%22Chinese%20tuxedo%22%20%222%20Doyers%22&f=false" target="_blank">The Trow Copartnership and Corporation Directory, Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City of New York</a></i>, March 1908: “Chinese Tuxedo (refused) 2 Doyers” </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpm5aMy0w_0lh_dUyafq-Ox63QPHofyd8JrcFNAa4ceqtiS6AYfQfL71OwqAOKZCies8daiU1gcOYaI5WLZENI3wEnqPrIcvwnJ0HcBhW_ZBbn-3Tv7EZPiO-BrsUUTCWv885Iojp8nlNGTt8G7NV6gg0h6qn2j55ZXs6tX8Qtq724vwyXlNyPzigvPD8/s1666/1907_08_23%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Postcard%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="1666" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpm5aMy0w_0lh_dUyafq-Ox63QPHofyd8JrcFNAa4ceqtiS6AYfQfL71OwqAOKZCies8daiU1gcOYaI5WLZENI3wEnqPrIcvwnJ0HcBhW_ZBbn-3Tv7EZPiO-BrsUUTCWv885Iojp8nlNGTt8G7NV6gg0h6qn2j55ZXs6tX8Qtq724vwyXlNyPzigvPD8/w400-h254/1907_08_23%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Postcard%2001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpx1C8RxAf6eYV-cxTcALdbbRb9uyyKFvHC22bpb1eseDG9t2sZLEN5s1Sy6Wql9EKN21zekwv29UthFco-QAsb30DhuHW_jxgyZnxNkeVxD98ZZ0pFgLHagDcdDbye1lw2gYKgEnynijg-JJ5vsM1NvTow76o-LUoF1JTGf-9-uLIcDeXfhkemXbcMiY/s1663/1907_08_23%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Postcard%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1057" data-original-width="1663" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpx1C8RxAf6eYV-cxTcALdbbRb9uyyKFvHC22bpb1eseDG9t2sZLEN5s1Sy6Wql9EKN21zekwv29UthFco-QAsb30DhuHW_jxgyZnxNkeVxD98ZZ0pFgLHagDcdDbye1lw2gYKgEnynijg-JJ5vsM1NvTow76o-LUoF1JTGf-9-uLIcDeXfhkemXbcMiY/w400-h254/1907_08_23%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Postcard%2002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">J. Koehler; postmarked August 23, 1907</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYmN5FA88PuetPqTbWop2xPu1S5DZitzYGQp7woXX_5ms5p_KBp0EcbKbXEOXxkm87uk9AhZUE3RJCamdXxN7ZNIQ3CQS5jrDoUePhRRmAtBPq4bn83cnc_yDuHfdT7XcboUu8sj0dLvL9fSE429r-u_dL_NF_lniNb68UwgoKGu7U02Mxw3YwfS1W/s1635/1908_01_28%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinatown%20NYC%2001a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1015" data-original-width="1635" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYmN5FA88PuetPqTbWop2xPu1S5DZitzYGQp7woXX_5ms5p_KBp0EcbKbXEOXxkm87uk9AhZUE3RJCamdXxN7ZNIQ3CQS5jrDoUePhRRmAtBPq4bn83cnc_yDuHfdT7XcboUu8sj0dLvL9fSE429r-u_dL_NF_lniNb68UwgoKGu7U02Mxw3YwfS1W/w400-h250/1908_01_28%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinatown%20NYC%2001a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfaRofE5xyyiEHc-bjcksxa9O4VWBn50qDd_me_mfZ26PcL2WHi0_dxKokwwQgV9bIz0VI-FUHNltbsI_pQqEvs-XuoR9mbBnRbWRMbssPLPUrTHEwsZVEufckP3DEpAPuXa6dlMxyTCcC3lWAQ_Or0_U3Whovd4KQ43yG9QVw2343IZrQml1dvPuS/s1638/1908_01_28%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinatown%20NYC%2001b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1015" data-original-width="1638" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfaRofE5xyyiEHc-bjcksxa9O4VWBn50qDd_me_mfZ26PcL2WHi0_dxKokwwQgV9bIz0VI-FUHNltbsI_pQqEvs-XuoR9mbBnRbWRMbssPLPUrTHEwsZVEufckP3DEpAPuXa6dlMxyTCcC3lWAQ_Or0_U3Whovd4KQ43yG9QVw2343IZrQml1dvPuS/w400-h249/1908_01_28%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinatown%20NYC%2001b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Postmarked January 28, 1908</div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Cl43AAAAMAAJ&pg=PT60&dq=%22Chinese+tuxedo%22+%222+Doyers%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAo974ka__AhX8M1kFHd3lAuUQ6AF6BAgMEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Chinese%20tuxedo%22%20%222%20Doyers%22&f=false" target="_blank">The World Almanac and Encyclopedia 1908</a></i>: Classified Advertisement</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68HbdxTbqkgDG5Fe_Zjxu2t2zH1U5NBr2134yUZTxGg3IVqFG0URAYvFLT8U_xvweV9e7hJsw1NN1wNbDfWQ4lBNI2zgK0Xrb9lMOTxBuw1NE3VWNo9p0iD2IyFHGU3y28emkQTv1SVHLjO5DGXmIppBWRxeCoD_PjN2GN65P3xq78YWK176MLaKiUTc/s2779/1908%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20World%20Almanac%20and%20Encyclopedia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="2779" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68HbdxTbqkgDG5Fe_Zjxu2t2zH1U5NBr2134yUZTxGg3IVqFG0URAYvFLT8U_xvweV9e7hJsw1NN1wNbDfWQ4lBNI2zgK0Xrb9lMOTxBuw1NE3VWNo9p0iD2IyFHGU3y28emkQTv1SVHLjO5DGXmIppBWRxeCoD_PjN2GN65P3xq78YWK176MLaKiUTc/s320/1908%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20World%20Almanac%20and%20Encyclopedia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i>Patterson Morning Call</i> (New Jersey), January 25, 1909, page 1:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Patersonians in Chinatown</div><div>Make the Grand Tour and Help Celebrate Celestial New Year.</div><div>... At 6 o’clock the party repaired to the Chinese Tuxedo restaurant at 2 Doyers street, where for upwards of an hour they partook of a full course Chinese dinner.</div><div><br /></div><div>The menu follows: </div><div>Gee Foo Men,</div><div>Mow Goo Chop Suey, Lot Ju Gao Gook,</div><div>Gow Shuk Gum Fon,</div><div>Ting Hong Soot Gee,</div><div>Chow Quay Fah Goey Chee,</div><div>Yin Wah Toon Op, Wah Fah Jock Soong,</div><div>Ng Shick Beung,</div><div>Sue Ding Go.</div><div>Lung Ding, Won Moo, Mut Ting Foy.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgms4UGgkcjBrST9Q2J5Uf2vv5LPmeKGVIHCjtiRgQbU1ipnMkmJQNIDTlFmXrROwZSC5VpaSGrVEQjEkq4Ok7o36rSyK-rD0vSzCEC8GVDeNRDZLSl7ECfX3WRLyAPBpsyUF02U28SiHySfR5x4VmoIKouROtqodWTly-FrAuxA49haysqQ_4hSu0T/s3226/1909_01_25%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Paterson%20Morning%20Call%20(NJ)%20p1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3226" data-original-width="681" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgms4UGgkcjBrST9Q2J5Uf2vv5LPmeKGVIHCjtiRgQbU1ipnMkmJQNIDTlFmXrROwZSC5VpaSGrVEQjEkq4Ok7o36rSyK-rD0vSzCEC8GVDeNRDZLSl7ECfX3WRLyAPBpsyUF02U28SiHySfR5x4VmoIKouROtqodWTly-FrAuxA49haysqQ_4hSu0T/w136-h640/1909_01_25%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Paterson%20Morning%20Call%20(NJ)%20p1.jpg" width="136" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=meY5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA141&dq=%22Chinese+tuxedo%22+%222+Doyers%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAo974ka__AhX8M1kFHd3lAuUQ6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Chinese%20tuxedo%22%20%222%20Doyers%22&f=false" target="_blank">The Trow Copartnership and Corporation Directory, Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City o New York</a></i>, March 1909: “Chinese Tuxedo (refused) 2 Doyers”</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdy63dhQz1AV8lnCDAENpSUHmEGGFaTjRoqJI-NJk2FZjed3L_9ln3HWcMqGsa-atRI3ltxTqswIYzJ1vCmL0IrpUq7r7rtrxGCnPyVrosszQ-HuFKjC4WycctgRAbZwWPnKwGdkvmSetd5qXioASCoXGcV5107hhQ4bhZZlJWDh1S3S0RhFChoCi/s2955/1909_08_18%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinatown%20NYC%20J%20Koehler.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1850" data-original-width="2955" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdy63dhQz1AV8lnCDAENpSUHmEGGFaTjRoqJI-NJk2FZjed3L_9ln3HWcMqGsa-atRI3ltxTqswIYzJ1vCmL0IrpUq7r7rtrxGCnPyVrosszQ-HuFKjC4WycctgRAbZwWPnKwGdkvmSetd5qXioASCoXGcV5107hhQ4bhZZlJWDh1S3S0RhFChoCi/w400-h250/1909_08_18%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinatown%20NYC%20J%20Koehler.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">J. Koehler; dated August 18, 1909</div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1909-08-18/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1770&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=2&words=CHINESE+TUXEDO&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Chinese+tuxedo&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">New-York Tribune</a></i>, August 18, 1909, page 4: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Ask Receiver for Chinese Tuxedo.</div><div>Recent Chinatown Troubles Cause Restaurant</div><div>Partners to Go to Court.</div><div>Recent troubles in Chinatown have affected the popularity of the quarter to such an extent that the owners of the Chinese Tuxedo, at No. 2 Doyers street, seek to have the partnership dissolved and the restaurant placed in the hands of a receiver. The unusual spectacle is witnessed of Chinese suing each other in the civil courts. Justice Amend, in the Supreme Court, will hear arguments this morning on the motion.</div><div><br /></div><div>The action was brought by Chen Houng and Louie Tong, two of the twenty-five partners. Houng says he has an investment of $600 in the business and is the manager at a salary of $55 a month, while Tong has an investment of $400 and is a waiter at $40 a month. The total investment of the twenty-five partners, Houng says, is $31,000. Each partner received an annual dividend of 29 percent, and there was a division each December of all surplus profits. On August 1, Houng says, Ching Keow, another partner, with an investment of $2,200, advertised in a Chinese paper that be would sell the Tuxedo on August 16 at auction, according to the Chinese custom. Keow threatened to sell the place for $12,000, Houng says. Houng does not want the place closed in this way, but wants a receiver appointed in American style. </div></blockquote><div><i>New York Sun</i>, August 18, 1909, page 5: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Sign of Chinese Distress.</div><div>Tuxedo Is to Be Sold in the American Way If the Court Will Permit.</div><div>A sign of the present hard times in Chinatown appeared in the Supreme Court yesterday when counsel for Chin Houng and LouieTong, two of the twenty-five partners in the Chinese Tuxedo, a restaurant at 2 Doyers street, obtained an injunction restraining the twenty-three others from selling out the restaurant at auction, according to the Chinese style of ending a partnership. Chin and Louie also got an order returnable this morning before Justice Goff to show cause why the partnership should not be dissolved by direction of the Court instead of in the Chinese way.</div><div><br /></div><div>The plaintiffs say that the business, into which $30,500 was put, has been under the control of Lee Show, the cashier, who put in $1,200, and Chin Keung, the bookkeeper who subscribed $1,000. They saw an advertisement in a Chinese newspaper that the restaurant was to be sold at auction and heard that Chin Keow, one of the partners, intended to dispose of it for $12,000. They think that the Court will realize more for all the partners out of the sale of the business than will Chin Keow.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo88I3L8xXfaf4I1p7mK56wYifvKnWPxyuHX3C6r7uqUlsF7AkbT6eH99148_k9R4tYJvvA3b4tMKeAgFd0s72QPYkxQMNek5mUlQHULVjAv43jNocrUUGk2GjloretcxVxqx4Knc0amC6FfBQaYtWQa0mwukn44W3ZTA5nbVFed7aauFcaml7zcaF/s1491/1909_08_18%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Sun%20p5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1491" data-original-width="934" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo88I3L8xXfaf4I1p7mK56wYifvKnWPxyuHX3C6r7uqUlsF7AkbT6eH99148_k9R4tYJvvA3b4tMKeAgFd0s72QPYkxQMNek5mUlQHULVjAv43jNocrUUGk2GjloretcxVxqx4Knc0amC6FfBQaYtWQa0mwukn44W3ZTA5nbVFed7aauFcaml7zcaF/s320/1909_08_18%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Sun%20p5.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><i>New York Sun</i>, August 21, 1909, page 1: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Sigel Murder Cut Profits.</div><div>Chinese Tuxedo Paid 20 Per Cent Until Publicity Hurt It.</div><div>Supreme Court Justice Amend reserved decision yesterday on the application of Chow Houng and Louie Tong, two of twenty-five partners in the Tuxedo, the Chinese restaurant at 2 Doyers street, for the appointment of a receiver. It came out on the argument of the motion that prior to June last the restaurant paid 20 per cent profit, which was divided among the partners according to the amount they invested. Then the Sigel murder occurred, and the profits not only stopped, but the place was run at a loss. </div><div><br /></div><div>Henry Schumann, counsel for the defendants, said that three Chinamen had formed a partnership to buy the business for $13,2000, and that the plaintiffs were parties to the proceedings until they suddenly changed their minds and applied for the receiver. He declared that in view of the conditions in Chinatown, the present offer is liberal, although about $30,000 has been put into the restaurant by the twenty-five partners.</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Dl-5bbWYN_ZUjqXKyThcIK_K-wEUzTKB2sRHN2XVjVV_UfMuUv-iTk_yoTSmbQxxwo1v7bZisDvh1VXPVwvfO5wW_AaO_hEwgWPdnjxGSdNOLH0DhLW-Cvtwo8dr_Tz-Zn8_VaMZ25HEZOy-FL6qnBJYjZPsHxXV3youF2o_GAAQYeVgVsQu4FMN/s1388/1909_08_21%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Sun%20p1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1388" data-original-width="938" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Dl-5bbWYN_ZUjqXKyThcIK_K-wEUzTKB2sRHN2XVjVV_UfMuUv-iTk_yoTSmbQxxwo1v7bZisDvh1VXPVwvfO5wW_AaO_hEwgWPdnjxGSdNOLH0DhLW-Cvtwo8dr_Tz-Zn8_VaMZ25HEZOy-FL6qnBJYjZPsHxXV3youF2o_GAAQYeVgVsQu4FMN/s320/1909_08_21%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Sun%20p1.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1909-08-21/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1770&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=13&words=2+Doyers&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=2+Doyers&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">Washington Herald</a></i> (DC), August 21, 1909, page 1: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Lose Money on Chop-Suey</div><div>Chinese Restauranteurs Want Receiver Following Sigel Murder.</div><div>New York, Aug. 20.—Supreme Court Justice Amend reserved decision to-day on the application of Chow Houng and Louie Tong, two of twenty-five partners in the Tuxedo, a Chinese restaurant at 2 Doyers street, for the appointment of a receiver. </div><div><br /></div><div>It came out on the argument of the motion that prior to last June the restaurant paid 20 per cent profit, which was divided among the partners according to the amount they invested. Then the Sigel murder occurred, and the profits not only stopped, but the place was run at a loss. </div><div><br /></div><div>Henry Schumann, counsel for the defendants, said that three Chinamen had formed a partnership to buy the business for $13,200, and that the plaintiffs were parties to the proceedings until they suddenly changed their minds and applied for the receiver. He declares that in view of the conditions in Chinatown, the present offer is liberal, although about 30,000 has been put into the restaurant by the twenty-five partners.</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/chinesestudentsm09bost/page/548/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">The Chinese Students’ Monthly</a></i>, Conference Number, 1909</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi__NLJsfQlEpiy6VoKPPbI4a9Jfg-ClrkN91n4IPZRsnps6MboGXIr6cXJIshgA4-1JvoxsaRtAQ7e7LLOj9zinhUsVDlF6l088txF0lx9pDxwQDrVcJ2KRIizJDDFWlIv9H-0ipdPkRtn4Wa7i_BLoBe0mCo4TbgcWwWDcSuJ4994vqSWz_cEliADY1Q/s1986/1909%20Chinese%20Students%E2%80%99%20Monthly%20Conference%20Number.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1986" data-original-width="1191" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi__NLJsfQlEpiy6VoKPPbI4a9Jfg-ClrkN91n4IPZRsnps6MboGXIr6cXJIshgA4-1JvoxsaRtAQ7e7LLOj9zinhUsVDlF6l088txF0lx9pDxwQDrVcJ2KRIizJDDFWlIv9H-0ipdPkRtn4Wa7i_BLoBe0mCo4TbgcWwWDcSuJ4994vqSWz_cEliADY1Q/w241-h400/1909%20Chinese%20Students%E2%80%99%20Monthly%20Conference%20Number.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1910-05-04/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1770&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=3&words=Chinese+Tuxedo&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Chinese+tuxedo&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">New-York Tribune</a></i>, May 4, 1910, page 3:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Uncle of Brave Emperor on His Way to Grant’s Tomb on Riverside Drive</div><div><br /></div><div>… Prince Tsai will have another whirlwind round of sightseeing and entertainments to-day. This morning he is to be whizzed through the subway into Brooklyn, and later will be the guest of the Chinese Reform Association and the Chinese Merchants’ Association at a dinner in the Chinese Tuxedo, No. 2 Doyers street. In the afternoon he will see the American Indian and cowpuncher as displayed by the “Buffalo Bill”-“Pawnee Bill” show in Madison Square Garden, and the evening will be occupied by a dinner in his honor by Mayor Gaynor at Sherry’s.</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1910-05-05/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1770&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=4&words=Chinese+Tuxedo&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Chinese+tuxedo&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">New-York Tribune</a></i>, May 5, 1910, page 3:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Prince Avoids Chinatown</div><div>Warning from Peking Thought to Have Kept Him Away.</div><div>Copies of “The Japan Advertiser,” of Tokio, reached here yesterday with a front page story of an attempt to assassinate the Prince Regent of China, the brother of Prince Tsai Tao, who has been in New York for several days. The account says that on the night of April 12, while he was walking in the palace gardens at Peking with five attendants, an explosion occurred that killed two of the party and mortally wounded another. The Prince Regent rushed to the summer house and was hurried to the palace by soldiers. Next morning one bomb was found inside the state gate, and later three others were found.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yesterday one of the party here said that Lord Li did not believe the dispatch was true. The party had learned of the rumor through the ship’s officers after sailing from Japan. At any rate, said Lord Li, the prince had received no warning from Peking. This was one of the reasons, it was said, why the prince did not attend the luncheon given in his honor at the Chinese Tuxedo. The green and yellow flags over the chop suey houses and tearooms flapped in the wind, and the glass wind bells tinkled merrily and everything seemed peaceful in the sometimes turbulent quarter.</div><div><br /></div><div>At any rate, he did not go to the Tuxedo yesterday to eat the fine luncheon Tom Mon Tip had spread. Judge Foster, the Solomon of Chinatown; ex-United States Treasurer Charles H. Treat. District Attorney Whitman and others were present. There were two large silver loving cups ready for presentation inscribed with proper ideographs, and one was taken to the Hotel Plaza by C. K. Shue of Boston, president of the Chinese Empire Reform Association. He and the prince speak different dialects, and Lord Li had to act as interpreter. Ng Poon Chew, editor of “The Chang [sic] Sai Yat Po,” Chinese newspaper of San Francisco, was another caller, and Li Lick You, a merchant, who called on Lord Li, sent in a red card almost three feet long. Several other callers went to the Plaza.</div><div><br /></div><div>About 2 o’clock in the afternoon the prince rode down to 23d street and Sixth avenue and went to the Erie and Pennsylvania terminals in Jersey and then back to the Hudson terminals. After a look at the city from the roof of the building he was taken over to Hoboken and back on the police boat Patrol to West 23d street and thence to Madison Square Garden. He took much interest in the Wild West show, and was particularly gleeful when Johnny Frantz, who came up from Texas, yesterday morning, hung to a bucking mustang by his spurs.</div><div><br /></div><div>The prince sails for Europe to-day on board the George Washington.</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/TheNumismatist1910Vol23/page/n157/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">The Numismatist</a></i>, June 1910, page 130: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>A.N.A. Convention</div><div>New York City, Sept. 5–10</div><div>Announcement of Arrangements</div><div>... Thursday, September 8.—Morning—Business session. “Spanish-American” lunch at noon, followed by a visit to historic points of lower New York, personally conducted and lectured upon by Mr. D. M. Webster, including Government buildings, American Bank Note Co., Fraunce’s Tavern, where big roster will be signed. Evening, “From the Occident to the Orient in a Minute”—Imperial Chinese banquet at Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant and Oriental Numismatic Nightmare, tendered by the New York Numismatic Club. (No insomnia will follow this function.)</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldir1910p1trow/page/n515/mode/2up" target="_blank">Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, City of New York</a></i>, July 1, 1910: “Chinese Tuxedo eatingh [eatinghouse] 2 Doyers” </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/americannumismat00ame_80k/page/5/mode/1up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">The Official Programme of the 1910 Convention of the American Numismatic Association</a></div><div>New York City, September 5th to 10th</div><div></div><blockquote><div>... Thursday, September 8th</div><div>6.00 p. m. Proceed to Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant, corner of Chatham Square and Doyers Street, for CHINESE BANQUET, tendered to visiting A. N. A. Members by the New York Numismatic Club. Admission by ticket. Address by Frank C. Higgins, F. Recetas President of the New York Numismatic Club, on a new phase of Chinese Numismatics.</div></blockquote><div></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/mehlsnumismaticm1910mehl/page/140/mode/2up" target="_blank">Mehl’s Numismatic Monthly</a></i>, August-September 1910, pages 141–143: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>… Thursday, Sept. 8.—Spanish Lunch and That Famous Chinese Dinner.</div><div>... The climax of the convention’s social end may be said to have been reached in the Chinese dinner given Thursday evening at the Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant at the corner of Doyer’s street and Chatham Square. The arrangements for this dinner had been under the supervision of President Higgins for several months past and it is safe to say that no such well drilled nor thoroughly skilled set of Chinamen in the art of entertainng [sic] a big numismatic convention had ever been seen between New York and Pekin since the world began. Manager Tam Ming of the Tuxedo, who is himself a scholarly and accomplished man, had been long entertaining and resolved to do the thing in the best manner possible and lend a co-operation of personal interest and enthusiasm which those who have the habit f considering a Chinaman as a coldblooded and unimpressionable proposition could scarcely understand. The banquet hall of the Tuxedo Restaurant was a blaze of gold and color, the walls being a solid mass of exquisitely carved and gilded wood worked into foliage, flowers, fruit, birds and animals overlaid with heavy gold leaf, the walls being decorated with large and valuable Chinese paintings and the cornices topped by large glass cases of huge waxen dolls dressed to represent historical signs among the empresses, heroes and heroines of ancient days. A numismatic touch was added by a lavish decoration of huge reproductions of Chinese coins—knife, key, pu, bridge and spade money, as well as the cash of early emperors and temple amulets, being hung about in profusion. Although the many individual tables etc set in American fashion, President Higgins occupied, Chinese fashion, with his guests of honor, Dr. Henderson, Dr. Wright and Mr. Howland Wood of Boston, a magnificent estrade of carved teak wood, the tables of which were placed at the side of the guests instead of in front, and overshadowed by a colossal painting of the great Chinese god of literature and art, Kuan Kung, with his attendants, with before him burning a fragrant fire of sandal wood incense amid the ceremonial vases and drapings of the Chinese temple.</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/AJN1910Vols44to45/page/n229/mode/2up" target="_blank">American Journal of Numismatics</a></i>, October 1910, page 177: </div><div><blockquote>… An interesting feature of the Convention was the presentation of a portrait of the late Dr. George F. Heath, the founder of the Association, on which occasion eulogistic tributes to his memory were given, and a Poem by Mr. A. G. Heaton, a former President, was read. The social side of the gathering was by no means neglected, and the hospitality of the New York Numismatic Club was everywhere evident. A “French Dinner” was held on Monday evening at the Cafe Martin; a “German Lunch” at the Kaiserhof Rathskeller on Tuesday, and a “Roman Dinner” at Colaizzi’s Italian Restaurant in the evening of the same day; on Wednesday evening, a “Colonial Dinner” at Troeger’s Hotel, with an illustrated lecture on “The Coin Cities of Sicily” by Mr. S. H. Chapman; on Thursday, the members enjoyed a “Spanish Lunch” at Varreno and Laidal’s, and in the evening a “Chinese Dinner” at the Chinese Tuxedo tested the capacities of those who participated, while Mr. Frank C. Higgins gave an interesting address on Chinese numismatics. On Friday they sat down to an “Old English Dinner” after a visit to Whitehead and Hoag’s establishment in Newark, where souvenir medals were struck and given to those present.</blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyW9ktO5QLN9TSK_wvWcX3Zh-04vDNS3op95r8ysOSMoa2wdxXwrIIXBug26BpkPzG9ZxiHp76R3mjcIaxDdY834TQMjoTPspIyIrfhN1I5_FNCFmDEGzRb4Cm9VT8DmcdU8qj2rxccWdsAIRL_flGCr_ZFRDNqD6y6Un7PYvn-1YayQ5wfIW-CWQF/s1899/1910_12_03%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Evening%20Telegram%20p14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1384" data-original-width="1899" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyW9ktO5QLN9TSK_wvWcX3Zh-04vDNS3op95r8ysOSMoa2wdxXwrIIXBug26BpkPzG9ZxiHp76R3mjcIaxDdY834TQMjoTPspIyIrfhN1I5_FNCFmDEGzRb4Cm9VT8DmcdU8qj2rxccWdsAIRL_flGCr_ZFRDNqD6y6Un7PYvn-1YayQ5wfIW-CWQF/s320/1910_12_03%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Evening%20Telegram%20p14.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>New York Evening Telegram</i>, December 3, 1910</div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1911-01-29/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1770&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=5&words=Chinese+Tuxedo&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Chinese+tuxedo&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">New York Sun</a></i>, January 29, 1911, page 4: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>New Year in Chinatown.</div><div>Confucius Was Born 2,462 Cycles Ago—Dinner Starts the Celebration</div><div>It is 2,462 years to-day since the birth of Confucius and Chinatown has on its holiday decorations in celebration of the new year. The observance of the new year began at 7 o’clock last night in the banquet hall of the Chinese Tuxedo. There the International Society of the Orient and Occident seized the occasion for the first of six monthly Oriental banquets. </div><div><br /></div><div>There were over 100 at the dinner, representing Persia, Assyria, Greece, Bohemia, China, Japan, Italy, Arabia and the United States. President Ex. Tchor Bajillions Oglu in a full Turkish costume was toastmaster.</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldir1911p1trow/page/n513/mode/2up" target="_blank">Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, City of New York</a></i>, July 1, 1911: “Chinese Tuxedo eatingh 2 Doyers” </div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hpo0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA156&dq=%22Chinese+tuxedo%22+%222+Doyers%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAo974ka__AhX8M1kFHd3lAuUQ6AF6BAgOEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Chinese%20tuxedo%22%20%222%20Doyers%22&f=false" target="_blank">The Trow Copartnership and Corporation Directory, Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City of New York</a></i>, March 1912: “Chinese Tuxedo (T.N.) (Tom Monkir & Chin Que) 2 Doyers” </div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/womanvoter00woma_22/page/18/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">The Woman Voter</a></i>, July 1912, pages 18–19: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinatown An Elysium of Peace and Safety</div><div>... Then there is Big Jack Poggi who runs a saloon and Chu Chu parlor at 12 Chatham Square, with a back room in which are a piano and tables for women as well as men; its rear entrance closed by heavy wooden doors opens on Doyers Street, and it was at this back door that the pistol bombardment took place in the first hour of Monday morning. You can see on the glass over the rear entrance of the Chinese Tuxedo across the street the small hole made by one of the flying bullets.</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldir1912p1trow/page/n529/mode/2up" target="_blank">Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, City of New York</a></i>, August 1, 1912: “Chinese Tuxedo eatingh 2 Doyers” </div><div><br /></div><div>New York Press, September 9, 1912, page 10: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Hero of Hankow Cheered by His Countrymen Here</div><div>General Lan Tells of Aid Given by American Chinese.</div><div><br /></div><div>It Did Cause Great Good</div><div>In Brilliant Celebration Lan Says Chinamen in Manhattan Were Particularly Patriotic.</div><div><br /></div><div>... More than sixty persons attended the dinner, which also was a reception to the General. It was held in the Chinese Tuxedo, Doyers street and Chatham square. ...</div></blockquote><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIqdHgFZ3f-SQ6EC858hMlVpgTgyJPXINTblptA0Pu3s8SuGfISWevdr-J4cEVB--0-j2lbzyRatSNov9qiETcNoQ4JFtGAIHysgYnwHFRl8NaMgqialeoK6hoHTWm5icKTWqlM31ZOFFq-FPGde0xb310jdLmFt5DIpKoWg6syTnF2graZz7Ztf-O/s3855/1912_09_09%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Press%20p10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3855" data-original-width="872" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIqdHgFZ3f-SQ6EC858hMlVpgTgyJPXINTblptA0Pu3s8SuGfISWevdr-J4cEVB--0-j2lbzyRatSNov9qiETcNoQ4JFtGAIHysgYnwHFRl8NaMgqialeoK6hoHTWm5icKTWqlM31ZOFFq-FPGde0xb310jdLmFt5DIpKoWg6syTnF2graZz7Ztf-O/w146-h640/1912_09_09%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Press%20p10.jpg" width="146" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fF0jAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA385&lpg=PA385&dq=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22+%222+Doyer%22&source=bl&ots=5arVl_Y_dv&sig=ACfU3U0fpfnl8YqA6NrtxtwuN6Ys88qLpw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjg78y7la__AhWJGFkFHYggApAQ6AF6BAgoEAM#v=onepage&q=%22Chinese%20Tuxedo%22%20%222%20Doyer%22&f=false" target="_blank">The Chinese Students’ Monthly</a></i>, November 10, 1912–May 10, 1913: advertisements</div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oxZBAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1525&dq=%22Chinese+tuxedo%22+%222+Doyers%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGwOzLk6__AhUEElkFHTQUCT84ChDoAXoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Chinese%20tuxedo%22%20%222%20Doyers%22&f=false" target="_blank">International Chinese Business Directory of the World 1913</a></i>: “探花 酒樓 The Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant ..... 2 Doyers St.” </div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldir1913p3trow/page/n327/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">Trow Business Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City of New York, 1913</a></i>: “Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant, 2 Doyers” </div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1911-01-29/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1770&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=5&words=Chinese+Tuxedo&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Chinese+tuxedo&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">Newark Evening Star</a></i> (New Jersey), May 26, 1913, page 7: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Miss Eng Gun Low Is Now Mrs. Chin Chee Yin</div><div>... Later in the day a regular Chinese wedding supper was given for the bridal party and the teachers of the First Church Sunday school at the Chinese Tuxedo. ...</div></blockquote><div></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/chinesestudentsm08unse/page/n683/mode/2up" target="_blank">The Chinese Students’ Monthly</a></i>, June 10, 1913</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizhyt4GN6M-QoWMSd29izLX4x5cbzkjZnnAz9C3NxTnBxVacmh484FXAcaU3BwHzCfzDwYu5V7jg8Mcy_HG-iT0Xn0vf3ABWcRdhEcKoCdOomjgRQLexrsvIHe-OsU3qkfGiI6A3KGFUjtoZUO68zVihbTKIUNdPrO-23liL1uUNpCjg8iQkQ6BLRddjI/s2084/1913_06_10%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinese%20Students%E2%80%99%20Monthly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="1311" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizhyt4GN6M-QoWMSd29izLX4x5cbzkjZnnAz9C3NxTnBxVacmh484FXAcaU3BwHzCfzDwYu5V7jg8Mcy_HG-iT0Xn0vf3ABWcRdhEcKoCdOomjgRQLexrsvIHe-OsU3qkfGiI6A3KGFUjtoZUO68zVihbTKIUNdPrO-23liL1uUNpCjg8iQkQ6BLRddjI/w251-h400/1913_06_10%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20Chinese%20Students%E2%80%99%20Monthly.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>The Chinese Tuxedo and Port Arthur Restaurant advertised in the <i>New York Evening Telegram</i>, November 25, 1913. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqpVlnJZKn5BG_IUj6-RslV3Gt4F2qXtlSfnswH7YMwqJBRwjo6Mi2T2KGQJxw-MdVgDECMquQlscKWO5b47ezXmsdMaEhELl8sCijEXwHxNoxa6Y-arhPNXckZAH1TQVmYhVJ20rcLXOdxOLZtWtPBqYwHNXI4gluDHfJaxRSLR0YPbhZ5EEtvUY/s800/1913_11_15%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Evening%20Telegram%20p10a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="800" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqpVlnJZKn5BG_IUj6-RslV3Gt4F2qXtlSfnswH7YMwqJBRwjo6Mi2T2KGQJxw-MdVgDECMquQlscKWO5b47ezXmsdMaEhELl8sCijEXwHxNoxa6Y-arhPNXckZAH1TQVmYhVJ20rcLXOdxOLZtWtPBqYwHNXI4gluDHfJaxRSLR0YPbhZ5EEtvUY/w400-h299/1913_11_15%20Chinese%20Tuxedo%20New%20York%20Evening%20Telegram%20p10a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldir1914p1trow/page/n411/mode/2up" target="_blank">Trow’s General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, City of New York</a></i>, August 1, 1914: “Chinese Tuxedo eatingh 2 Doyers” </div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KhNZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA190&dq=%22Chinese+Tuxedo+(TN)+(Tom+Monkip%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiV4sC9pK__AhXZEFkFHciqDBsQ6AF6BAgIEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Chinese%20Tuxedo%20(TN)%20(Tom%20Monkip%22&f=false" target="_blank">R.L. Polk’s 1915 Trow New York Copartnership and Corporation Directory, Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx</a></i>: “Chinese Tuxedo (TN) (Tom Monkip, Walter T Ligh & Chan Kew) restaurant, 2 Doyers” </div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/ridersnewyorkci00hopkgoog/page/24/mode/2up" target="_blank">Rider’s New York City and Vicinity, Including Newark, Yorkers and Jersey City; A Guide-Book for Travelers</a></i> (1916): </div><div><blockquote>(2) Chinese Quarter (3d Ave. Elevated to Chatham sq., or Interborough Subway to Worth st.): Port Arthur, 9 Mott st. Oriental, 3 Pell St. Chinese Delmonico, 24 Pell st. Tuxedo Restaurant, 2 Doyers st. Suey Jan Low, 16 Mott st. (less pretentious, but good). King Hong Lau, 18 Mott st. In all these restaurants meals are served both a la carte and table d’hote, the prices for the latter ranging from 50c. to $5.00 in the more expensive places, and to $2.50 in the more modest. In ordering a la carte, it should be remembered that one order does not necessarily mean an individual portion or a double portion, as is the common practice elsewhere. There are, for instance, a dozen different kinds of Chop Suey, at prices ranging from 15c. to $1.00 or more per order; as the quality improves, the sire of the portion increases, so that by choosing the more expensive dishes, a party of four or five dine quite economically on food of the finer quality.</blockquote></div><div><i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1916-04-03/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1770&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=2&words=2+Doyer&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=2+Doyers&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2" target="_blank">New York Sun</a></i>, April 3, 1916, page 4:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinese Republicans Dine.</div><div>Men and Women Express Disapproval of Yuan Shih-k’ai.</div><div>Two hundred and fifty members of the Young China Society, with a sprinkling of American guests, gathered last night at the Tuxedo Restaurant, 2 Doyers street, to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the organization and voice their disapproval of the policies of the wily President-Emperor, Yuan Shih k’ai.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Young China Society, which is ardently republican in its political views, embraces in its membership both men and women. Among the Chinese suffragettes present last night was Miss Cheuk, who helped make the bombs that were thrown at the Governor of Canton in the first Chinese revolution. Miss Liu of the Columbia Teachers College was also a guest. </div><div><br /></div><div>At the back of the room, above the speakers’ table, were hung the flags of the American and Chinese republics, and above them the picture of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who founded the society during Li Hung Chang’s first visit to America. Among the speakers were Dr. Chung Wing Luong, ex-Commissioner of Education in the Province of Canton and dean of the Christian College there; Ying Pok Hsieh, president of the society, and Chin Que, a Chinese interpreter.</div></blockquote><div><i>R.L. Polk & Co.’s 1917 Trow’s New York City Directory, Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, City</i>: “<a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldire1917trow/page/502/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">Chan Kew</a> (Chinese Tuxedo) 2 Doyers”; “<a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldire1917trow/page/1926/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">Tom Monkip</a> (Chinese Tuxedo) 2 Doyers”; “<a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldire1917trow/page/1988/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">Walter T Ligh</a> (Chinese Tuxedo) 2 Doyers”; “<a href="https://archive.org/details/trowsgeneraldire1917trow/page/n2391/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+Tuxedo%22" target="_blank">Chinese Tuxedo</a> 2 Doyers” </div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=aOY5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA219&dq=%22Chinese+Tuxedo+(TN)+(Tom+Monkip%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiV4sC9pK__AhXZEFkFHciqDBsQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Chinese%20Tuxedo%20(TN)%20(Tom%20Monkip%22&f=false" target="_blank">R.L. Polk’s 1918–19 Trow New York Copartnership and Corporation Directory, Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx</a></i>: “Chinese Tuxedo (TN) (Tom Monkip, Walter T Ligh & Chan Kew) restaurant, 2 Doyers” </div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-10-20/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1770&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=4&words=2+Doyers&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=2+Doyers&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2" target="_blank">New York Tribune</a></i>, October 20, 1919, page 2:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chinatown Repays War-Time Favor of Major McCook</div><div>Chinese-American Citizen Alliance Makes Him Its Honor Guest at Colorful Banquet in Doyers Street</div><div><br /></div><div>A tiny, up-one-flight-and-turn-to-the-right restaurant of soft lights and swirling festoons of colored paper, a maze of tables with white-collared Chinese scurrying about serving yung hung ha to other white-collared Chinese, Chinese music and Chinese musicians.</div><div><br /></div><div>Such was the scene at 2 Doyers Street last night, when the Chinese American Citizens Alliance held its fourth annual dinner. It was advertised throughout Chinatown and New York as a real feast, and a real feast it was. The guest of honor wasn’t a Chinese. He was a friend of the Chinese—Major Philip J. McCook, who is running for the supreme court. But Major McCook’s candidacy didn’t have anything to do with his attending the dinner, and neither did the supreme court. It was something else.</div><div><br /></div><div>Back in the days when the United States was at war Major McCook, who was then director of the draft in New York, did the Chinese a good turn. He helped them to stage a big Oriental feed at Camp Upton for Chinese soldiers at the camp before they sailed overseas. And the Chinese told Major McCook that they wouldn’t forget it—the Chinese never forget. And along came the date for the holding of the annual feast of the Chinese American Citizen Alliance, at 2 Doyers Street, Chinatown. Major McCook got an invitation, got a good feed, a good time, and got better acquainted with a large number of the progressive citizens whose ancestors were born in the flowery kingdom.</div><div><br /></div><div>Luke Chess, who enlisted in the navy during the war, was chairman of the occasion, served as toastmaster, speechmaker and general factotum. He had a good time, and so did all his guests, including a number of court officials. Luke had a brief experience as a cook in the navy and the chow that he served at the dinner was first rate—wah yem bock, hung guy and bok won tea. Also birdnest soup and Mandarin lobster. The atmosphere in the little upstairs restaurant was richly suggestive of Chinese progressiveness and good taste. </div><div><br /></div><div>Several of the invited guests, including Major McCook and United States Commissioner Hitchcock and officers of the China Society of America, were called upon to speak, and the various speakers paid tributes to the loyalty of the Chinese people during the war and to their splendid qualities of citizenship.</div><div><br /></div><div>Messages were read from Governor Smith and Mayor Hylan congratulating the alliance.</div></blockquote><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/newredbookinform00newy/page/164/mode/2up" target="_blank">The New “Red Book” Information and Guide to New York, Manhattan and the Bronx</a></i> (1923): “Tuxedo, 2 Doyers st” </div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/newredbookinform00durs/page/164/mode/2up" target="_blank">The New “Red Book” Information and Guide to New York, Manhattan and the Bronx</a></i> (1924): “Tuxedo, 2 Doyers st” </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Further Reading and Viewing</b></div><div><a href="https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?VP3=DamView&VBID=24UP1GQX32YXH&SMLS=1&RW=1477&RH=985" target="_blank">Museum of the City of New York</a>, Chinatown photographs</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Related Posts</b></div><div><a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2019/05/advertising-chinese-restaurant-1966.html" target="_blank">Chinese Restaurant, 1966</a></div><div><a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2017/11/combination-platter.html" target="_blank">Combination Platter</a></div><div><a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2023/03/dan-wayne-lee-designer-and-restauranteur.html" target="_blank">Dan Wayne Lee, Designer and Restauranteur</a></div><div><a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2024/03/graphics-dining-at-14-mott-street-in.html" target="_blank">Dining at 14 Mott Street in New York Chinatown, 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Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-22328930003493289692023-11-27T08:00:00.043-05:002023-11-29T08:51:15.755-05:00Today Is Bruce Lee’s Birthday<div><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_of_the_Dragon" target="_blank">The Way of the Dragon</a></i> sketch by the late <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Adams" target="_blank">Neal Adams</a></div><div>Purchased for $35 at the <a href="https://www.comic-con.org/forms/comic-con-50-comic-con-1970s" target="_blank">San Diego Comic-Con</a> in the mid-1970s</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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href="http://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-deadly-hands-of-kung-fu.html" target="_blank">The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu</a></i> covers</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>(Next post on Wednesday: <a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2023/11/photography-chinese-tuxedo-new-york-city.html" target="_blank">Chinese Tuxedo, New York City</a>)</div>Alex Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-58618709685336356982023-11-22T08:00:00.004-05:002023-11-27T08:20:12.282-05:00Advice to Anna May Wong from Yan-Phou Lee<div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/millards-1930.01.18/page/256/mode/2up" target="_blank">The China Weekly Review</a></i>, January 18, 1930</div><div>Advice to Anna May Wong </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXj6_yonTUFCBITV-9Dznxzu8MRq2jXg9IIBSokLT1ZZQNoJMq_QKYg1QA2aGRY5HhSOprIdcZs1iY0MbJuvhqzfc3f8VxI1KWYe2k-ntjy_onN4eEiHmcjgKLAXqmzRjRjZW-8G27-XSr43BQBQZo7Db0_8xvET5GxpMJ4FTa6-iQ5Te_UkK5Jqqze9U/s1832/1930_01_18%20Anna%20May%20Wong%20China%20Weekly%20Review.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1832" data-original-width="1240" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXj6_yonTUFCBITV-9Dznxzu8MRq2jXg9IIBSokLT1ZZQNoJMq_QKYg1QA2aGRY5HhSOprIdcZs1iY0MbJuvhqzfc3f8VxI1KWYe2k-ntjy_onN4eEiHmcjgKLAXqmzRjRjZW-8G27-XSr43BQBQZo7Db0_8xvET5GxpMJ4FTa6-iQ5Te_UkK5Jqqze9U/w436-h640/1930_01_18%20Anna%20May%20Wong%20China%20Weekly%20Review.jpg" width="436" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Yan-Phou Lee is the author of <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/wheniwasboyinchi00leey" target="_blank">When I Was a Boy in China</a></i> (1887). </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>(Next post on Monday: <a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2023/11/today-is-bruce-lees-birthday.html" target="_blank">Bruce Lee</a>)</div><div><br /></div>Alex Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-7068828089697899762023-11-15T08:00:00.006-05:002024-02-22T18:10:07.135-05:00Mei Lan-Fang in The China Weekly Review<div><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/millards-1930.01.11/page/214/mode/2up" target="_blank">The China Weekly Review</a></i>, January 11, 1930</div><div>Mei Lan-Fang and His Trip to the United States</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPFIfRwzjt6z69wmO7rxQpKLyTKHWSY_VnDetoJlnkdXXojI_nUtTED4EqdkykrgTJhXg9KzADpZF4suvidurfGx2KzreE_X0kdwvpynuTwze6d5YksS_a8ftqU7Lv_K8xsy8tW5-bwYZ2ZmGGRvBCXxm4XWF525bSxtMqtHfUljG52BVtgkjbrZDIjrY/s1832/1930_01_11%20Mei%20Lan-Fang%20China%20Weekly%20Review.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1832" data-original-width="1240" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPFIfRwzjt6z69wmO7rxQpKLyTKHWSY_VnDetoJlnkdXXojI_nUtTED4EqdkykrgTJhXg9KzADpZF4suvidurfGx2KzreE_X0kdwvpynuTwze6d5YksS_a8ftqU7Lv_K8xsy8tW5-bwYZ2ZmGGRvBCXxm4XWF525bSxtMqtHfUljG52BVtgkjbrZDIjrY/w437-h640/1930_01_11%20Mei%20Lan-Fang%20China%20Weekly%20Review.jpg" width="437" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Related Posts<br /><a 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href="http://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2016/02/mei-lan-fang-in-this-week-in-chicago.html">Mei Lan-fang in <i>This Week in Chicago</i></a><br /><a href="http://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2016/03/mei-lan-fang-in-san-franciscan.html">Mei Lan-fang in <i>The San Franciscan</i></a><br /><div><a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2016/10/new-canton-theater-new-york-city.html" target="_blank">New Canton Theater, New York City</a></div><div><br /></div><div>(Next post on Wednesday: <a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2023/11/advice-to-anna-may-wong-from-yan-phou.html" target="_blank">Advice to Anna May Wong from Yan-Phou Lee</a>)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Alex Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-76920883195344063192023-11-11T08:00:00.200-05:002023-11-15T08:25:04.908-05:00Photography: Ong Q. Tow aka James Craig Tow, Spanish-American War Veteran<div><div></div></div><div><div>Today is Veterans Day. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQCw5M8OqHhqdXMVZjejFnOFt5XChEswbgIKRJPga9aCZDm0GM93ttGZNM6y8Y_oFFGGfsG5GI8mtpKl6neI55MMN4vyhGEiU7WzmhTZuL2ZilGCoOsnlSy7ugLJHm3tdFvceBZWJC70AIosCgt7f4N9mVU_2KZ5-kXWsfO6LX9Z03d9p0D125GtNx1zk/s889/1899%20James%20C%20Tow%20Leslie%E2%80%99s%20Weekly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="715" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQCw5M8OqHhqdXMVZjejFnOFt5XChEswbgIKRJPga9aCZDm0GM93ttGZNM6y8Y_oFFGGfsG5GI8mtpKl6neI55MMN4vyhGEiU7WzmhTZuL2ZilGCoOsnlSy7ugLJHm3tdFvceBZWJC70AIosCgt7f4N9mVU_2KZ5-kXWsfO6LX9Z03d9p0D125GtNx1zk/s320/1899%20James%20C%20Tow%20Leslie%E2%80%99s%20Weekly.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The most informative profile of Tow was published in the <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/per_st-louis-post-dispatch_1899-09-18_51_29/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22James+Craig+Tow%22" target="_blank">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a></i> (Missouri), September 18, 1899. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Mongol in Our Army</div><div>First Chinaman to Wear the Blue Is Jim Tow</div><div>San Francisco, Sept. 18.—James Craig Tow is the first Chinaman to enlist in the United States army in time of war. Tow enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Regiment, United States Volunteers, and was assigned to service in the Philippines. </div><div><br /></div><div>Tow was born in Sonoma, this State, Dec. 6, 1869, thus making him in his thirtieth year. His father, Own Men Young, is a wealthy Chinese wholesale merchant. He is very much oposed [sic] to Tow becoming so Americanized, and when he learned more than a year ago that his son was endeavoring to enter the army of the United States he used every possible endeavor to dissuade him from doing so, even going so far as to enlist the assistance of prominent and influential residents of San Francisco to have the War Department refuse to consider the boy’s application, which was made last May. The application was considered, but he was not accepted. At that time he endeavored to enlist in the Seventh California. He passed the physical examination satisfactorily, but the officers of the regiment would not acept [sic] him, although it is understood that the men offered no objection to serving with him.</div><div><br /></div><div>The lad’s education was obtained in the public schools of Sonoma and the best of private schools in the city of San Francisco. Being naturally bright and the favorite of his father, money was lavished upon him in many ways and no part of his education was neglected. He speaks the language of six different provinces of China, talkes [sic] the English language perfectly, without the least Chinese accent, and speaks and interprets the Spanish language, thus making him a very valuable man for the Thirty-fifth Regiment.</div><div><br /></div><div>Upon completing his education in San Francisco, whither he had removed from Sonoma at the age of 10 years, Tow became dissatisfied with his Chinese surroundings and concluded to see something of the American ways of living. He accordingly left his old quarters and came south, stopping for a time in Los Angeles. Then he found his way into Santa Ana and followed the occupation of gardener for several years. From this he became a merchant, conducting a large Japanese and Chinese store in this city for several years. He is a favorite among the Chinese population of Santa Ana, and at the present time is overseeing a large part of the Chinese business of the city, his countrymen having the utmost confidence in his ability and honesty. He is a natural born mechanic, and at the time of his enlistment was employed in the Santa Ana Novelty Works as an expert in wood turning.</div><div><br /></div><div>A few years [ago] Tow built a miniature facsimile of the Maine, doing all the work himself. The warship was a most perfect little fighter, and at various times has attracted a great deal of attention here when placed on exhibition. Tow has never been married and did not forsake his queue until the last moment before being sworn into the service by Recruiting Officer Matthews, although he has dressed as an American ever since he left home.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Thirty-fifth Regiment will assemble at Vancouver Barracks, Wash., and will sail for the Philippines from Seattle. The term of Tow’s enlistment is from June 30, 1899, to June 30, 1901.</div></blockquote><div></div><div>News of Tow’s enlistment was reported as early as June 1898 in many <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?dateFilterType=yearRange&date1=1770&date2=1963&language=&ortext=&andtext=&phrasetext=ong+q+tow&proxtext=&proxdistance=5&rows=20&searchType=advanced&sort=date" target="_blank">newspapers</a> including <i>The New York Times</i>, June 4, 1898. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>A Chinaman Enlists.</div><div>Santa Ana, Cal., June 3.—O. Q. Tow, a Chinaman, has enlisted here in the army and will join Company L of this city, now at the Presidio, San Francisco. Tow was born in Sonoma County, Cal., twenty-eight years ago. He passed the medical examination to-day, and was immediately assigned to a squad being recruited for Company L. He says that as soon as he is ordered to San Francisco he will cut off his queue.</div></blockquote><div></div><div>The <i><a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH18980618.2.140&srpos=2&e=-------en-logical-20--1---txIN-%22Ong+Q+Tow%22-------" target="_blank">Los Angeles Herald</a></i> (California), June 18, 1898, said </div><div><blockquote>Out of thirty candidates for Company L there were twenty-five accepted and mustered in. Ong Q. Tow, the patriotic Chinaman who enlisted, will not go as a member on account of not being the required height. He is very much disappointed over his non-acceptance and will make an effort to go as a cook. ...</blockquote></div><div>The <i><a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH18980620.2.72&srpos=3&e=-------en-logical-20--1---txIN-%22Ong+Q+Tow%22-------" target="_blank">Los Angeles Herald</a></i>, June 20, 1898, said</div><div><blockquote>Ong Q. Tow, the Santa Ana Chinaman who wants to go to tho Philippines with the next expedition, ought to be given a chance. He has earned it by his persistency. He speaks English, Spanish and Chinese fluently, and would no doubt make himself very useful. </blockquote></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The <i><a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH18990810.2.207&srpos=3&e=-------en-logical-20--1---txIN-%22James+Craig+Tow%22-------" target="_blank">Los Angeles Herald</a></i>, August 10, 1899, reported Tow’s enlisting. </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">A Chinese Recruit</div><div style="text-align: left;">James Craig Tow Becomes an American Soldier</div><div style="text-align: left;">Santa Ana, Aug. 9.—James Craig Tow, a native Californian, born of Chinese parents, today enlisted in the service of the United States for duty in the Philippines with the Thirty-fifth regiment, United States volunteers. Tow has lived all his life in the state of California and was educated in the public schools. He speaks the English language distinctly, with little or no Chinese accent and is almost a perfect man physically. The last thing he parted with before entering the service of the United States was his queue. He first appeared before the recruiting officer with his queue tightly rolled on top of his head, but the officer ordered that it be removed and Tow made a bee line for the nearest barber shop, returning in a few minutes with an up-to-date American hair cut, after which the oath was administered and he became a full-fledged American soldier. Tow is the first Chinaman to enlist in the service of the United States.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">The <i><a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDDU18990816.2.77&srpos=4&e=-------en-logical-20--1---txIN-%22James+Craig+tow%22-------" target="_blank">San Diego Union</a></i>, August 16, 1899, published an explanation of Tow’s enlistment.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>... Lieutenant Chappelear was asked about the Chinaman who enlisted at Santa Ana, and who was said to be the only successful applicant in that town. “Yes, there was a Chinaman enlisted at Santa Ana,” said the lieutenant, “but he was not the only man. There were fifteen men received into the regiment there, and thy [sic] are all white men except this Chinaman, not at all like the common run of Celestials in this state. He is a native of California, was educated at Santa Ana, and is a pretty bright fellow. By occupation he is a cook, under Capt. Matthews of Santa Ana, who is in command of Company D of the Thirty-fifth. Capt. Matthews wanted him, and that explains why he enlisted. He does not come in as a soldier.”</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">Evidently the </span><i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, August 20, 1899, was the first publication to publish a photograph of Tow. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQsApfr6bIDOB2uyS40jQEWvh5m56f2DWx0MgI79ccmgSVPeDJgqewOJte5mF9-y8tsoM7XKBUHCvJxzNRpXzCAaugRaoNL4rP83V3bdMSSXkj4RdRkJdyFLjV-H7oVfCIXrdpmDK1cGiDUcPbMLhaNrr8xj_gbp_BXgsgDvLnfMSCauCdtQXB7kFP/s2255/1899_08_20%20James%20Craig%20Tow%20San%20Francisco%20Chronicle%20(CA)%20p11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2255" data-original-width="1535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQsApfr6bIDOB2uyS40jQEWvh5m56f2DWx0MgI79ccmgSVPeDJgqewOJte5mF9-y8tsoM7XKBUHCvJxzNRpXzCAaugRaoNL4rP83V3bdMSSXkj4RdRkJdyFLjV-H7oVfCIXrdpmDK1cGiDUcPbMLhaNrr8xj_gbp_BXgsgDvLnfMSCauCdtQXB7kFP/s320/1899_08_20%20James%20Craig%20Tow%20San%20Francisco%20Chronicle%20(CA)%20p11.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>The same photograph appeared in <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HhVdnIHeDTkC&pg=PA259&dq=%22James+C.+Tow,+Uncle+Sam’s+Chinese+Soldier%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwil-MeuleH-AhVVEFkFHfV-D-YQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=%22James%20C.%20Tow%2C%20Uncle%20Sam’s%20Chinese%20Soldier%22&f=false" target="_blank">Leslie’s Weekly</a></i>, September 30, 1899. </div><div><br /></div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmWo5yNCp9pYb8hjdMY5_8SQX0-3AjV_wED5_nLYfYHBLnWy-rRRiMIp6u3V0nzUR_K9ehv37NF5yFnoc3Mw_EVnQK24HoIsJBP9xodQpcqtY828J-Ppg5IEQwQAdfVB46dAEefYjE2jS00KQzpTMh7f0Sz2OlRNpAdnyW8Ifoql9iQr0lbPJt6a-a/s1611/1899_09_30%20James%20C%20Tow%20Leslie%E2%80%99s%20Weekly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1611" data-original-width="1373" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmWo5yNCp9pYb8hjdMY5_8SQX0-3AjV_wED5_nLYfYHBLnWy-rRRiMIp6u3V0nzUR_K9ehv37NF5yFnoc3Mw_EVnQK24HoIsJBP9xodQpcqtY828J-Ppg5IEQwQAdfVB46dAEefYjE2jS00KQzpTMh7f0Sz2OlRNpAdnyW8Ifoql9iQr0lbPJt6a-a/s320/1899_09_30%20James%20C%20Tow%20Leslie%E2%80%99s%20Weekly.jpg" width="273" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Tow, officers, enlisted men and musicians were counted in the 1900 United States Census. He is on line 19.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGunFvvf_FXO0KlvsTQ_Gt9dUqNUEJ2kol4V-VmoyXxZfqujSfqe5p8bFuWalKs36lpTIKmEbKUQ-4rO2f4Zi0UZrlHSfVzap2hwQpN0PO4_KblRsIzYIY3IgsbhVOXKnm3oGKw3QphBlMFlsx7PBVdEa8-sVDVByCdLHoZsGx3fD8OLe9U6axXjz4/s2434/1900%20James%20Craig%20Tow%20Census%20L19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2434" data-original-width="2256" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGunFvvf_FXO0KlvsTQ_Gt9dUqNUEJ2kol4V-VmoyXxZfqujSfqe5p8bFuWalKs36lpTIKmEbKUQ-4rO2f4Zi0UZrlHSfVzap2hwQpN0PO4_KblRsIzYIY3IgsbhVOXKnm3oGKw3QphBlMFlsx7PBVdEa8-sVDVByCdLHoZsGx3fD8OLe9U6axXjz4/w373-h400/1900%20James%20Craig%20Tow%20Census%20L19.jpg" width="373" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Private Tow was profiled in the <i>Riverside Daily Press</i> (California), August 31, 1900.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHumH7IiA-9TGEV1f6g9qO0_d4RToqVlmYHLb5a9CZ4fRYqrB-yFYeEE2kqbulU0lLCpSiCLLvugUWoN8z3HP599yxNRpnMd8gs53-VfhId3Hj1E83XdetMhRnQVsKKfgyBy6nFlTcvoaH74kTwRbgsH8cUK0e2CvCFT-hiukT61ISYr5niSieYlah/s3746/1900_08_31%20James%20Craig%20Tow%20Riverside%20Daily%20Press%20(CA)%20p5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3746" data-original-width="603" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHumH7IiA-9TGEV1f6g9qO0_d4RToqVlmYHLb5a9CZ4fRYqrB-yFYeEE2kqbulU0lLCpSiCLLvugUWoN8z3HP599yxNRpnMd8gs53-VfhId3Hj1E83XdetMhRnQVsKKfgyBy6nFlTcvoaH74kTwRbgsH8cUK0e2CvCFT-hiukT61ISYr5niSieYlah/w106-h640/1900_08_31%20James%20Craig%20Tow%20Riverside%20Daily%20Press%20(CA)%20p5.jpg" width="106" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SnhQAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA76-PP2&dq=%22Cook+James+C.+Tow,+Company+D%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8weqon-P-AhXGkIkEHWxQDs4Q6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Cook%20James%20C.%20Tow%2C%20Company%20D%22&f=false" target="_blank">Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents Relating to the Philippine Islands</a></i>, Volume 55, included Tow’s order. </div><div></div><blockquote><div></div><blockquote><div>Special Order, No. 221.</div><div>Headquarters Division of the Philippines. </div><div>Manila, P. I., December 26, 1900.</div><div>... 6.—<i>Cook</i> James C. Tow, Company D, 35th Infantry, U.S. volunteers, will report to the collector of customs, this city, for duty in the custom house. The quartermaster’s department will furnish the necessary transportation, and the subsistence department will arrange for his subsistence while en route.</div></blockquote><div></div></blockquote><div></div><div>After the war, Tow was discharged and remained in the Philippines where he went into business. His store advertisement appeared in the back of the book, <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/agq0161.0001.001.umich.edu/page/n245/mode/2up?q=%22James+Craig+Tow%22" target="_blank">The Whip Hand: A Story of the Legion</a></i> (1905). </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXAfXHoBNxcL3QJ15R5wToHs58Mo3nBiaAUbalCYw3UDY4nVIgsEj8BPOYVNYw4oS9rQ46HkZw4B5lmqkQQV5vSrEtdxhgJmzOM5M3iY5rqBnjhuPi8AxLm0ld6Ut8ST0eSrQe2dFJpYZHom1QUlEBgBaWY7gF_wD7YW5MiMUKvnxFKF4e1XK8cXo/s3302/1905%20James%20Craig%20Tow%20The%20Whip%20Hand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3302" data-original-width="1903" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXAfXHoBNxcL3QJ15R5wToHs58Mo3nBiaAUbalCYw3UDY4nVIgsEj8BPOYVNYw4oS9rQ46HkZw4B5lmqkQQV5vSrEtdxhgJmzOM5M3iY5rqBnjhuPi8AxLm0ld6Ut8ST0eSrQe2dFJpYZHom1QUlEBgBaWY7gF_wD7YW5MiMUKvnxFKF4e1XK8cXo/w231-h400/1905%20James%20Craig%20Tow%20The%20Whip%20Hand.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>In 1908, Tow was involved in <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LYZDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA199&lpg=PA199&dq=%22James+Craig+tow%22&source=bl&ots=3-IUktKVEj&sig=ACfU3U2WZsWG0-4ULmojIejk5LVmbPVDcw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4x-qfjeP-AhUcj4kEHWuODewQ6AF6BAgZEAM#v=onepage&q=%22James%20Craig%20tow%22&f=false" target="_blank">litigation</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Tow’s handiwork was noted in the <i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95060905/1909-05-23/ed-1/seq-1/" target="_blank">Tombstone Epitaph</a></i> (Arizona), May 23, 1909. </div><div></div><blockquote><div>… Mr. Seidell highly praises the battleship which was presented to him by its builder James Craig Tow, an Americanized Chinaman, and the only Chinaman to have enlisted in the U.S. army. </div><div><br /></div><div>Tow was born in Sonoma, Cal., and enlisted with the California Volunteers, his record showing meritorious service. Tow was a favorite with his company and achieved fame as the only regularly enlisted Chinaman in the service. He was of mechanical turn of mind and besides making the battleship model also perfected models of brass canon and U.S. army field pieces. Tow is at present in Manila where since he was mustered out of the service he has established himself in the mercantile and lumber business. He writes English fluently as is attested by his correspondence with Mr. Seidell and altogether is an interesting character. ...</div></blockquote><div></div><div>On December 7, 1913, Tow married Kate Chuen in Manila.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVG1QOjvOve9C7kx18a6YDym5plvu8TOZsuoFGKH-p6Ho5zoeteLca_yy2W4lfbkH9mdVxaNHUPmOx3M0C_sONnZjC3ZbNs0w1V6HcWzGO0rSRLefp3g7Q8kwEw7J-iU5DAnyII8kWzMLHNFxmSKohprOkbkL9OflpjlEAUegR_tj_iPxnX8RgpTM/s1226/1913_12_07%20James%20Craig%20Tow%20Philippines%20Marriage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1214" data-original-width="1226" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVG1QOjvOve9C7kx18a6YDym5plvu8TOZsuoFGKH-p6Ho5zoeteLca_yy2W4lfbkH9mdVxaNHUPmOx3M0C_sONnZjC3ZbNs0w1V6HcWzGO0rSRLefp3g7Q8kwEw7J-iU5DAnyII8kWzMLHNFxmSKohprOkbkL9OflpjlEAUegR_tj_iPxnX8RgpTM/w400-h398/1913_12_07%20James%20Craig%20Tow%20Philippines%20Marriage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ancestry.com</div><div><br /></div><div>Tow owned an <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=q_MwRE2BkzkC&pg=PT1&dq=%22James+Craig+tow%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-s4XgjuP-AhXklIkEHc6bD40Q6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=%22James%20Craig%20tow%22&f=false" target="_blank">automobile</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Tow passed away on October 13, 1923 in Manila. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQCIFX_EwXnpDXuV1wZpJ0Azw-_9PSYbbF58NH2kKLSGbcwI9IfBW6tg1vspm8f3nUe5xldD-hIFNCuBn_-nLrqivWPG0aUemxyDTc8r-tpWmosnyggvRQD0YJhLzrgJb2wA_op2hmqzRILFf0BWh8w-_E9VTo8iMhTEC6i6TQNwU1QoMgdVVrBhAA/s1224/1923_10_13%20Jim%20Tow%20Philippines%20Death.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="1224" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQCIFX_EwXnpDXuV1wZpJ0Azw-_9PSYbbF58NH2kKLSGbcwI9IfBW6tg1vspm8f3nUe5xldD-hIFNCuBn_-nLrqivWPG0aUemxyDTc8r-tpWmosnyggvRQD0YJhLzrgJb2wA_op2hmqzRILFf0BWh8w-_E9VTo8iMhTEC6i6TQNwU1QoMgdVVrBhAA/w400-h294/1923_10_13%20Jim%20Tow%20Philippines%20Death.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ancestry.com</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Further Reading</b></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/oc-weekly-2015-01-02/page/n11/mode/2up" target="_blank">OC Weekly</a>, Burn, Chinatown, Burn, January 2, 2015</div><div><a href="https://www.ochistoryland.com/ongqtow" target="_blank">OC History</a>, Ong Q. Tow, Chinese Businessman and Soldier</div><div><a href="https://loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/intro.html" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a>, The Spanish-American War</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>(Next post on Wednesday: <a href="https://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2023/11/mei-lan-fang-in-china-weekly-review.html" target="_blank">Mei Lan-Fang in The China Weekly Review</a>)</div>Alex Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961079895014060773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954922478840563562.post-55664083371918689962023-11-08T08:00:00.003-05:002024-02-22T18:10:36.979-05:00Mei Lan-fang in The Young Companion 良友<div><a href="https://archive.org/details/liangyou-1928.04.30/page/n28/mode/2up" target="_blank">#25, April 1928</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIhGA3kjRz8BpZoIZVuEZyffCSkBsQ5XCngzGbnX3kXuQtNcWa5CF4W4vtE0Sd9_l0YUH_hPD3pCaSVjSH-bn24_kxPgWC6BX91Zdl2uCahbr_XdjVKF53QMhFfzXq2MD55cTtUKjJkJAeqB8jZsCIgVuAo5XAaHYhjasC-qeTDy6KY6ozhMzp-eSD/s2130/1928_04%20Mei%20Lan%20Fang%20Young%20Companion%20%E8%89%AF%E5%8F%8B%20%2325.jpg" style="clear: left; 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